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I'v posted about this before, but nothing was really done about it. Why doesn't PDF have a section for Asia-Pacific/Oceania yet? Every other area of the world is represented with it's own section except Asia-Pacific/Oceania, which has an approximate population of 299 million people. Major...

China's People's Liberation Army has asked to operate under Australian command in the largest international exercises that it has ever joined, smoothing the path for Tony Abbott's most challenging international excursion as Prime Minister. The breakthrough in military relations follows close...

Australia scrambled an air force surveillance plane earlier this month to monitor an unannounced Chinese military exercise that took the emerging superpower's ships closer to Australian territory than ever before. In what observers say is a significant strategic development, China carried out...

Australia's electronic spy agency is using the nation's embassies to intercept phone calls and internet data in neighbouring countries, according to new information disclosed by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden and a former Australian intelligence officer. The secret Defence Signals...

Why doesn't PDF have a section for Asia-Pacific/Oceania yet? Every other area of the world is represented with it's own section except Asia-Pacific/Oceania, which has an approximate population of 299 million people. Major countries in the Asia-Pacific/Oceania region: Indonesia Australia...

BEING forced to strangle a Taliban commander during hand-to-hand combat drove one of the country's most elite warriors to change the way our special forces train for modern warfare. Australian Commando Paul Cale, an elite soldier from 2 Commando Regiment, created a world-leading close-quarter...

Officials confirm case as Canberra admits knowing about its citizen, a suspected Mossad agent who died in Israeli jail. Israel has confirmed it jailed an Australian-Israeli citizen, known as "Prisoner X", in solitary confinement on security grounds who later died in custody. The justice...

Brisbane company Linc Energy says independent studies have confirmed a major shale oil source in South Australia's far north, which officials have estimated could be worth $20 trillion. The company says US-consultants have carried out drilling and geological and seismic surveys around Coober...

The Australian Defence Force is quietly resurrecting plans to buy seven huge intelligence and surveillance drones that could cost up to $3 billion. The unmanned aerial vehicles will be used for maritime surveillance and intercepting asylum seeker boats. The decision comes despite claims...

Australia's economy has overtaken Spain's to become the 12th-largest in the world, according to the Government's analysis of new International Monetary Fund (IMF) data. Treasurer Wayne Swan has described the result as a "remarkable achievement" given Australia's relative population size...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities used aggressive measures Wednesday in an attempt to halt the nosedive of the country's currency, making arrests, vowing to stamp out sidewalk money changers and warning merchants against fueling the mounting public anger over the economy. There were...

It seems there is a section for every part of the world except Oceania which includes Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and many pacific nations. I think it would be a good idea to have one.

MELBOURNE has claimed gold as the world's most liveable city for the second year in a row but Sydney has lost its status as Australia's second-most desirable destination to Adelaide. Melbourne has edged out Austria's capital Vienna to claim the Global Liveability Survey title of the best city...

This is the dramatic moment a U.S. Navy ship is sunk by a torpedo from an Australian submarine during a military exercise in the Pacific Ocean. The 12,100-ton vessel Kilauea was struck just below the bridge of the ship and promptly broke in two before sinking beneath the waves 40 minutes...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Australian foreign minister has privately warned Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that foreign leaders see “America in decline.” That’s according to Romney, who says he met with Foreign Minister Bob Carr in a San Francisco hotel Sunday...

A misguided Taliban commander handed himself into Afghan police in an attempt to claim the $100 reward being offered for his capture. Mohammad Ashan, a mid-level commander wanted for his role in at least two attacks on security forces, approached police at a checkpoint in Paktika province...

Australia's central bank has signed an agreement with its counterpart in China allowing for up to $30 billion to be exchanged between the two banks. The purpose of the agreement between the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and People's Bank of China (PBC) is to support investment between the...

NORTH KOREA'S forthcoming missile launch will be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia for the first time, the US has warned. The warning was delivered in person yesterday to the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, by a senior official in the Obama Administration, Kurt Campbell, during a...

DEFENCE Minister Stephen Smith has confirmed that Australia and the US are actively discussing future joint military exercises with Indonesian and Chinese forces in the Top End. Mr Smith said the possibility of such exercises was among the issues raised at yesterday's meeting of Australian and...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange plans to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, despite being under house arrest in the United Kingdom, the whistleblower group has tweeted. Wikileaks announced its intentions on Saturday, saying the organisation also planned to field a candidate to run...