Underinvestment in diplomacy suggests Australia is more eager to defend against a disorderly world than to try to reshape it.

The Australian National University has won the key role in a new federal government push to build stronger security ties with Pacific Island countries and counter the growing influence of China.

Australia will set up a center for strategic analysis of information to help the Pacific region tackle security threats such as illegal fishing, people smuggling and drug trafficking, its foreign...

Commissioners and officials from across Australia and the Pacific region have come together to officially open the Pacific Faculty of Policing (PFP) in Manly.

Delegates from Pacific Island nations’ security agencies came together for the inaugural Joint Heads of Pacific Security event in Brisbane this week.

The meetings of the past week may have been the turning point in stemming China's prolonged soft power push into the Pacific region.

Australia’s win in Nadi could signal an end to Bainimara’s “Look North” policy, which reoriented Fiji toward China.

Australia is pushing to cement its status as the security partner of choice for Pacific nations, forming a new expeditionary training force to work with key regional neighbours, including Papua New...

BY Islands Business correspondent Nic Maclellan at the Pacific Islands Forum, Nauru Pacific leaders will consider a new Biketawa Plus declaration on regional security, as they gather in Nauru for...

The Morrison government is pledging to build a large, new naval ship that will cruise the south Pacific and help Australia’s neighbours deal with natural disasters as part of what is being seen as...

Hopes and fears about the South Pacific drive Australia’s policy ‘step-up’—along with the great needs of Papua New Guinea and the islands. The hopes and needs get talked up while the fears quietly...

Pacific islands have declared climate change the “single greatest threat” to security, a significant shift in language.