The review also highlighted the emergence of "major power" competition in the Indo-Pacific and said it has the potential to threaten Austra...

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Angus Houston has been appointed as the PM's special envoy and would lead Australia's efforts on the ground in Ukraine.

"It's absolutely imperative that we bring them home, but in order to bring them home we've got to first get them out," he said.

Angus Houston, the head of the search coordinating agency for the missing MH370, also said the search cost will be shared with Malaysia.

The remarks came as the first phase of the search was wrapped up, having scanned 329 sq miles of southern Indian Ocean floor.

Trilateral ministerial talks among China, Malaysia & Australia on search of missing MH370 started in parliament house in Canberra. It will ...

Malaysia, Australia and China will hold a trilateral meeting next week to decide on the next step in the costly and frustrating hunt for th...

Signals possibly from the black box of the ill-fated Malaysian jet were "rapidly fading" and the ongoing massive search for the plane was l...

"Hopefully in a matter of days, we will be able to find something on the bottom that might confirm that this is the last resting place of M...

An Australian naval ship hunting for MH370 has detected fresh underwater signals consistent with aircraft black boxes as "most promising le...

A number of "encouraging leads" of electronic pulse detected in southern Indian Ocean prompted multinational search teams to rush hi-tech s...

Time is running out in the efforts to detect the pings as the batteries that power the recorders' beacons are expected to expire in the nex...

Australian PM Tony Abbott said the hunt for the plane is the most difficult in human history and there is no guarantee that it would be fou...

The investigation into what happened to MH370 may take a long time and may never determine the cause of the tragedy, Malaysia's police have...

"There is no one better placed than Angus to co-ordinate & liaise given the significant number of countries that have a stake in this searc...

Weather in the search area is forecast to worsen with light showers and low clouds, though search operations are expected to continue, the ...