As the Australian general election approaches, candidates will head to the polls on Saturday, hoping their campaigns were successful enough to gain a majority. It’s a tight race between current Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese. Poll figures are not yet clear enough to accurately predict an outcome.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared that the federal election will take place on Saturday, May 21. In his first pitch to Australians, officially kicking off his reelection campaign, Morrison on Sunday asked voters to focus on his cabinet’s performance during the pandemic and its contribution to post-pandemic economic recovery. He stressed that the […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has criticised Beijing for “an act of intimidation” after a Chinese warship fired a laser at a Royal Australian military aircraft. The attack took place on Feb. 17 as an Australian P-8A Poseidon aircraft was monitoring a Chinese Navy vessel sailing through the Arafura Sea—in international waters but inside Australia’s […]
Fully vaccinated international tourists will be allowed to visit Australia from Feb. 21, following a near two-year lockout since the beginning of the pandemic. Prime Minister Scott Morrison made the announcement after a national security committee meeting of his Cabinet on Feb. 7. Since late 2021, entry in the country has been largely restricted to […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s official WeChat account has been hijacked and rebranded as a lifestyle page—leading one senator to accuse the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of “foreign interference” during an election year. According to the Daily Telegraph, the agency running the prime minister’s WeChat account reported problems with posting content on the channel in […]
CANBERRA, Australia—Foreign tourists won’t be welcomed back to Australia until at least next year, the prime minister said Tuesday as he outlined plans for lifting some of the toughest and longest COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed by any democracy. The country will instead prioritize the return of skilled migrants and students after it hits Prime Minister […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, revealed in a recent interview that it’s been over a year since Xi Jinping answered his phone calls. In an interview with CBS, Morrison agreed that things are not very friendly at the moment, saying there are difficulties in the China–Australia relationship. However, he says those difficulties are determined by […]
CANBERRA—Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday rejected Chinese criticism of Australia’s new nuclear submarine alliance with the United States, and said he doesn’t mind that President Joe Biden might have forgotten his name. China reacted angrily when Biden, Morrison, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson used a virtual news conference this week to announce a […]
