With echoes of the Cold War, Trump’s $500b project triggers a modern-day technological race — and exposes a lagging Australia’s lack of vision.

It’s been a significant day for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the United States. Such initiatives are about providing equality of opportunity and a sense of being valued for all members of an organisation.

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

Former NSW premier and foreign affairs minister Bob Carr has unleashed on the return of US President Donald Trump, warning “not a single work of US history or politics prepared us for the suddenness of this descent”.

Experts say the withdrawal will diminish the agency's ability to provide public health support, while the WHO said it "hopes the US will reconsider".

WA producers recovering from years of Chinese levies are waiting anxiously to see what impact Donald Trump's international trade agenda will have on them.

Democratic-lead states and civil rights groups have filed a slew of lawsuits in response to Donald Trump's bid to roll back a principle that has been recognised in the US for more than 150 years.

Penny Wong and Donald Trump hardly sound like a match made in political heaven. Yet, there was Australia’s foreign minister, in prime position.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan as the Trump administration kicks off its formal foreign policy engagements in discussions with the Indo-Pacific “Quad.

Readers’ letters on Donald Trump’s White House return, the ESG revolt, taxpayer-funded lunches, DEI initiatives, antisemitic attacks, and the return of Joe Aston.

The Donald Trump administration hit the ground running as the new US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, hosted the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) hours after the oath ceremony. The meeting saw the leaders agree to New Delhi’s plan to host the Summit-level meeting of the grouping in India.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with counterparts from Australia, India and Japan on Tuesday, a meeting he said will stress the importance of working with allies "on the things that are important to America and Americans.