Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong who will soon embark on a trip to China, on Tuesday said that she will push China to lift trade sanctions and seek consular access to two Australians detained by Beijing.

Australia urges Beijing to release its citizens as Foreign Minister Wong heads to China

China's newly appointed ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian faced heckling as he gave a speech at a local university in Sydney. Qian, who took up the role in January was speaking about the future of frosty relations between China and Australia when multiple protestors interrupted him.

China's ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian heckled, called 'representative of a genocidal dictatorship'

China has denied using the controversy of the Great Barrier Reef to advance its political agenda against Australia. The Great Barrier Reef has been added to the list of World Heritage sites that face the danger of being put on the endangered list.

China denies politics behind Great Barrier Reef's addition to endangered list

The Australian government has rejected Chinese allegations that it was meddling in the rollout of domestically-made Covid-19 vaccines in Papua New Guinea. Australia's Minister for International Development and the Pacific Zed Seselja said Papua New Guinea's decision over its choice of jab had already been accepted.

Australia rejects accusation of meddling in rollout of Chinese jab in Papua New Guinea

Australia's foreign minister hit out at the "arbitrary detention" of academic and writer Yang Jun Friday after a verdict in his closed espionage trial was deferred by a Beijing court.

Australia lambasts 'arbitrary detention' of academic in China

Chinese-born Australian academic and author Yang Jun will go on trial in China on espionage charges next week, after spending more than two years in detention, Canberra's foreign minister has confirmed.

Australian academic to face spying trial in China

In a tit-for-tat move, China has suspended an economic agreement with Australia a few weeks after Canberra scrapped a Belt and Road infrastructure pact. The China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue has been suspended "based on the current attitude" of the Australian government, China's National Development and Reform Commission said in a statement on Thursday.

Tit for tat: China scraps economic accord with Australia

Australian public broadcaster SBS said it would stop using content from Chinese state-run television Friday, pending a review of serious human rights concerns. The Australian television, radio and web outlet -- which specialises in multilingual, multicultural content -- said it was investigating CGTN and CCTV's airing of dozens of forced prisoner confessions.

Australian public broadcaster suspends use of China's CCTV, CGTN content

2 days after the China-Australia Twitter war began, questions are being raised on Twitter's inaction. Why hasn't the platform fact-checked Zhao Lijian's post? Is the feature only limited to Donald Trump's tweets? Molly Gambhir gets you the story.

Gravitas: The Australia-China Twitter war

After muzzling free speech at home, and forcing foreign correspondents into leaving China, Beijing is now going after journalists abroad. An Australian journalist called Bang Xiao who works in ABC news channel has received rape threats against his family after his content enraged Chinese nationalists in Australia.

Now, China attacks journalists abroad, targets Australian journalist Bang Xiao

Amid row over the coronavirus probe initiated by Australia, China's deputy head of mission in Australia Wang Xining compared its World War-II ally to "Brutus approaching Julius Caesar".

'And you, Brutus?': Chinese official explains hurt over Australia's COVID-19 probe

President Xi Jinping’s China has been increasingly pushing its agenda beyond its borders and testing how far it can go to exert its influence within the sovereign borders of its democratic trade partners.

Australia’s looming cloud: The China challenge

The People’s Republic of China has been the initiator of hegemony and domination in the present-day comity of nations and the larger system of world politics. The Chinese are opposed and allergic to any theme or political-economic system premised upon democracy, right to protest and is pitted against any respect for Human Rights as is evident with the treatment meted out to minorities in the context of Taiwan, Mongolia, Xinjiang and the most popular case of Tibetan homeland in the Himalayan heights demarcating India and China.

The intended Australia and China decoupling

Australia's counter-espionage agency raided the house of New South Wales state legislator Shaoquett Moselmane amid investigation into alleged Chinese influence in the country's political affairs.

Australian intelligence officers raid lawmaker's premises over alleged China links

Australia needs to boost its cyber security in cooperation with the United States in order to ''counter'' China, according to a recent report. According to the report released Tuesday by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, the allies should jointly develop health care and digital infrastructure in developing Pacific nations and increase military cooperation amid ''immense global disruption and unprecedented domestic pressures'' exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

To 'counter' China, US and Australia need to boost cyber security: Report

Australia has demanded an international probe into the coronavirus outbreak but China has protested and threatened, however, over 110 countries have backed Australia.

Why Australia has more to lose than China in trade row

Beijing said on Tuesday that Canberra should not "intervene" in China's judicial processes after confirming Australian national Yang Jun had been arrested for alleged espionage.

Australia shouldn't intervene: China on detained citizen case

China hits back at Vietnam and Australia. Watch video to know more.

China hits back at Vietnam and Australia

Australians enjoying a sunny winter morning were surprised by the sight of three Chinese warships steaming into to Sydney Harbour Monday, forcing the prime minister to reassure jittery residents.

Chinese warships cause surprise in Sydney harbour

Australia will allow imports of the intoxicating drink kava, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said as he sought to forge closer ties with its Pacific neighbours amid growing Chinese interest in the region.

Watch: Amid competition with China, Australia to allow kava import to boost Pacific ties

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Australia urges Beijing to release its citizens as Foreign Minister Wong heads to China