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Michelle Obama was photographed looking less than enthused as she accompanied her husband on a speaking tour in Australia Monday. The former first couple touched down in Sydney on a private jet Sunday night before eating lunch at an upscale harborside seafood restaurant Monday, The Daily Mail reported. As Barack Obama, 61, appeared to revel at working a crowd of adoring Aussie onlookers, shutterbugs caught Michelle, 59, crossing her arms with a sourpuss expression on full display following the couple’s private meal at the Bathers’ Pavilion, which offers a six-course tasting menu with wine pairings for $200. The Obamas also...

[Caption] It’s a tightrope walk for the grouping at a time when US-China trade war has reached a peak. After having a bitter experience with Putin, Biden may need to maintain more restraint, simply to avoid another catastrophe in the Indo-Pacific The May 24 face-to-face meeting of the Quad leaders is considered very crucial against the backdrop of the ongoing Ukraine war. All the four heads of the Governments -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US president Joe Biden, Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese -- came together on a platform to display strength and...

I support the Quad as an initiative to contain Chinese totalitarianism. But using The Quad as a place to discuss human rights in Afghanistan or to extend the scope of the war in Ukraine does not look like good strategy to me. New Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was right to make attendance at the Tokyo meeting a high priority, but when he gets home he faces serious human rights questions which he cannot ignore if he wants to truly defend freedom from all of its enemies in Australia. Likewise Joe Biden is not consistently defending freedom in America. Leftist...

Australians today ejected the rightwing coalition government that has held power for almost a decade. As counting continued after yesterday’s general election, Labor leader Anthony Albanese was expected to form a minority government. Scott Morrison, the prime minister, conceded defeat in a televised address to party supporters late on Saturday and said he would be resigning as leader of his defeated Liberal Party. He said: “I’ve always believed in Australians and their judgement, and I’ve always been prepared to accept their verdicts. And tonight they have delivered their verdict and I congratulate Anthony Albanese in the Labor Party.”

Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has refused to say whether Australia will adopt full body scanners at major airports, following a meeting with a high-ranking US security official in Sydney. Mr Albanese on Sunday held a one-hour meeting with Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, Jane Holl Lute, where the pair discussed their respective countries' approaches to airline security. The US boosted its airport security in the wake of the attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day, and required stricter security procedures for all US bound flights. But despite a US push for other countries to adopt the...