The golfing legend revealed the request in an interview ahead of him receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Australian embassy in Washington.

The golfing great hinted that he was called upon once again to act as a bridge between the Australian government and Donald Trump.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong met her Indian and Japanese counterparts in Washington and said the invitation for Quad foreign ministers to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration showed an "iron-clad commitment" to close cooperation in the Indo Pacific region.

Yahoo's live news blog for Thursday, January 30 has concluded. An American Airlines flight has crashed after colliding with a helicopter in Washington DC. There were 64 people on board the flight and at least three personnel on the helicopter with a frantic search underway for survivors.

Beijing’s state media recently published an article drawing attention to Washington’s apparent plans to use Australia as a “beachhead” for the looming Indo-Pacific war. Besides missing the strategic context of Australia’s thinking post-World War II,

Brisbane must prioritise stadiums for the 2032 Olympics which are easy to navigate for fans and have long-term value for the city, according to Greg Norman, the newest member of the powerful board organising the Games.

Australian markets climbed Thursday, breaking ranks with Wall Street that fell overnight as the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged. Several Asia-Pacific markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday. The S&P/ASX 200 started the day up 0.22%, extending its gains from the previous session, ahead of trade data release.

Australia is now more dependent on a single market than it has ever been since the late 1940s when our biggest customer was the United Kingdom.

Dutton shared plans for the ban in his budget reply speech last May, proposing a two-year pause on foreign investors and temporary residents purchasing existing homes in Australia. The Coalition also proposes a sharp reduction of the permanent migrant intake, and to lower the number of overseas students at universities.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has held one-on-one talks for the first time with newly sworn-in US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

A new kind of real estate war is breaking out on Australia’s famous shorelines, with a debate over the fairness of staking a claim in the country’s “town squares.”

She told reporters in Washington that Australia was "on a pathway of increasing defence expenditure". "Our focus is very much on how do we continue to deliver on AUKUS, because we do believe that ...