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The Australian Government is nominating Dr Robert Floyd as Australia's candidate for Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive-Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBTO).

Australia and Papua New Guinea share a longstanding mutually beneficial relationship, reaffirmed by the PNG-Australian Comprehensive Strategic and Economic Partnership (CSEP). Australia is concerned about the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 situation in PNG and is providing significant support for PNG’s response.

Australia and Germany have signed a new agreement to promote two-way trade and investment in hydrogen produced from renewable energy, supporting opportunities for new jobs and lower national carbon emissions.

Australia will expand our COVID-19 regional development pivot with additional support for Southeast Asia’s health security, stability and economic recovery.

Our thoughts are with Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert and her family on the second anniversary of her detention in Iran.

The Australian Government acknowledges the distress of the family and friends of those missing since the capsizing of Gulf Livestock I on 2 September. 

Afghan Army deserter Hekmatullah, who murdered three off-duty Australian soldiers in 2012 in a cold-blooded crime of betrayal, is being transferred to a detention facility in Qatar by the Government of Afghanistan.

Thousands of jobs across the tourism and hospitality industry will be backed through a $50 million injection to help restart Australia's vital business events sector.

Australia and Germany have signed a new agreement to promote two-way trade and investment in hydrogen produced from renewable energy.

Regional tourism rebounded by over $1 billion in the month of June, according to new monthly figures released today by Tourism Research Australia (TRA).