In the past 12 months, the Australian government has made no new contributions of any kind to Ukraine – military, humanitarian or reconstruction. It’s baffling.

Award-winning singer Missy Higgins has performed around the world but made time to sing to MPs and senators during a busy parliamentary sitting day.

A set of conjoined twins, Tom and Sawong, were born in Papua New Guinea on October 9. The hospital they are being treated at has recommended they should not be separated or at least one twin will die.

The parents of conjoined twins in Papua New Guinea who had hoped to send their babies to Sydney for surgery are now desperately trying to go to Germany instead, saying Australia is too expensive.

For now, the Pacific Islands have mostly sought to avoid explicit alignment with either China or the United States and its partners. At this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders ...