WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s Finance Minister Grant Robertson will resist working up an Australian-style appetite for debt and deficit when he delivers New Zealand’s budget.…
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CANBERRA, Australia — Australian prime minister’s lawyers resist independent senator Rex Patrick’s demand for the public to see the medical advice behind the national cabinet’s decisions on the pandemic…
KURRI KURRI, Australia — The Morrison government is pressing ahead with a new gas-fired power plant in the Australian state of New South Wales Hunter Valley, as…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s economists expect wage pressures remained subdued in the first three months of the year, even as the economy rebounded strongly and unemployment fell…
TOWNSVILLE, Australia — An application designed to help small businesses prepare for and respond to disasters has been launched by Australia’s north-eastern state of Queensland’s government. The…
CANBERRA, Australia — Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers believes former United Kingdom prime minister Margaret Thatcher would be “mighty proud” of the Morrison government’s record on wages growth.…
DARWIN, Australia — The Australian Defense Force’s new Joint Strike Fighter has hit the skies above the Northern Territory for the first large-scale air combat training exercise since…
BRISBANE, Australia — The Queensland government has been accused of hiding data about the performance of the state’s hospitals, which the opposition says are simply not coping.…
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — People in the West African nation of Nigeria are excited about Germany’s decision to send back valuable artifacts looted from ancestors by British soldiers…
GABORONE, Botswana — Could the innate animal tracking skills of Botswana’s Kalahari Bushmen save them from poverty? Researchers and conservationists think so. The art—honed and passed from…