Australia

Analysis - Facing deportation from Australia? Best hope your son's a footy star if you want a sympathetic run in the local press, Phil Pennington writes.

Papua New Guinea's acting chief migration officer says force will not be used to move detainees from the Manus Island detention centre.

AJ Graham - who spent two and a half years in a prison after founding the Rebels biker gang in Tasmania - has returned to New Zealand.

A controversial trillion-dollar push by China to dominate global trade is being resisted by senior national security figures in Australia.

Vanuatu's government says it expects Australia to advance the concerns of Pacific Islands states now that it has a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.

Australia will introduce random searches of airport workers as it increases security after a recent foiled terrorism plot, officials have said.

The police in Australia are offering a record $A6 million worth of rewards will help find a serial killer who has murdered six women.

The Australian Government has been forced to shelve university funding plans that would have doubled or tripled tuition fees for New Zealanders.

A much-loved Australian teacher was attacked by armed men on a motorbike and fatally shot during a robbery in the Kenyan capital this week.

Australia has been criticised by the United Nations Human Rights Committee for chronic non-compliance with its findings.

The Australian government is not abandoning plans to overhaul citizenship laws despite a major defeat in the Senate.

Too many low-level offenders are being swept up by an Australian immigration clampdown that's affected hundreds of New Zealanders, police officers there say.

The Highlanders first five Lima Sopoaga will start for the All Blacks in Saturday night's third Bledisloe Cup Test against Australia in Brisbane.