Geopolitics

Canberra joins 19 nations pledging to help reopen the strait. Washington says it's not enough.

The Royal Australian Navy marks 125 years with the largest gathering of foreign warships in Sydney since 2013. Military aircraft traced contrails over the Harbour Bridge as 6,000 personnel from across the Indo-Pacific assembled.

Jet fuel prices have doubled in a fortnight, but the real killer for the middle-class holiday is the collapsing discretionary dollar.

Australia imports 85% of its fertilizer, with more than half of the nation's urea coming from countries now cut off by the Gulf conflict.

The company will remove the privacy feature from Instagram on May 8, opening user messages to potential scanning and third-party access.

Beijing offered to help Taiwan with energy supplies if it accepted reunification. Taipei called it 'cynical manipulation'.

While the United States is focused on Iran, China has hosted seven world leaders and announced plans to dominate AI and tech.

While Asian nations slash government workweeks and cap fuel prices, Canberra is still tinkering with supply-side measures. The view from the region looks rather different.

Iranian missile strikes on the world's second-largest LNG exporter will hit UK households harder than most realise. Here's why your energy bills are about to climb.

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Government extends fuel security payments to Geelong and Brisbane plants amid Middle East supply shock