Tag: Scott Morrison

• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Macron shows the bitter side of diplomacy at G20

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron called Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison “a liar” as tensions between the two countries escalated despite diplomatic protocols in force while both leaders gathered at Rome for the G20 Summit.

• Thursday, September 16th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  UK/US/Australia defense and security partnership in Indo-Pacific; nuke subs for Wallabies

  

  A landmark defence and security partnership was agreed on Wednesday by the leaders of the UK, the United States and Australia which will protect and defend shared interests in the Indo-Pacific.

• Monday, May 31st 2021 - 08:14 UTC

  New Zealand is backing Australia in the “barley dispute” with China

  

  New Zealand has decided to support Australia in its dispute with China on barley tariffs, signaling goodwill to work on differences in how to approach Beijing. The announcement came on Sunday when Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrived in New Zealand for a Monday summit with Jacinda Ardern.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Australia and China acrimonious controversy escalates to incendiary tweets

  

  China’s embassy in Australia said politicians there had “misread” a tweet showing a digitally-altered image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child, and were trying to stoke nationalism.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Australia and New Zealand iron out quarantine dispute ahead of Wallabies-All Blacks test matches

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday she had telephoned Australian counterpart Scott Morrison to defuse tensions over a scheduling dispute between the countries' rugby teams.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 17:13 UTC

  Greg Mortimer: Australian PM thanked Uruguay’s humanitarian action

  

  After the departure from Montevideo of the last medical flight with passengers of the stranded Antarctic cruise Greg Mortimer, the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, sent a letter to Uruguay’s President, Luis Lacalle Pou, acknowledging the action of his government for its collaboration with Australian citizens.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Bush fires scorching Australia threaten PM Scott Morrison political survival

  

  After weeks of criticism over the handling of the bushfires scorching Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday he will propose a national review into the response to the disaster, as the fires claimed another firefighter's life.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Bushfires in Australia threaten the dairy industry; “thousands of cattle have been lost”

  

  Bushfires across Australia's east coast are set to pile on more pain for the country's dairy industry, already hurt by a prolonged drought, as processors in one of the world's largest exporters face tightening milk supplies.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Australian navy in emergency evacuation operations; PM Morrison jeered by bushfire victims

  

  The Australian navy on Friday began evacuating around 1,000 people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes across the states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Australia orders the evacuation of 30.000 tourists as temperature rises to 40 Celsius

  

  Thousands of residents and holiday makers have been told to evacuate a swathe of Victoria as soaring temperatures and strong winds fan massive bushfires in the Australian state.