Stephen Smith

...was a aEURoeone-offaEUR� agreement because a five year-old girl on board the Oceanic Viking was unwell. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith rushed from the meeting to an interview with ABC's Lateline where he announced the decision which...

In this article: Indonesia, Australia, Jakarta, Singapore, The Sydney Morning Herald, Najib Tun Razak, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Jose Ramos Horta, and Lee Hsien Loong

...chose political expediency over sticking by a trusted friend. Citing China's concerns Australia's Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, pulled out of the quadrilateral dialogue that saw us line up with Japan, India and the US. Coming...

In this article: Kevin Rudd, Australia, United Nations Security Council, China, Uranium, APEC, India, UN, and Bob Hawke

...said. Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce said Mr Rudd had "botched something" about the visit. But Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said there was still a possibility Dr Yudhoyono could make an a end-of-year visit. Mr Smith rejected...

In this article: Kevin Rudd, Australia, Indonesia, and Christmas Island

...John Howard or Alexander Downer or Kevin Rudd or Julia Gillard to come on. "It's bizarre - we can get Hillary Clinton but not Stephen Smith." Max Uechtritz, the former ABC news chief who is now AJE's programming director, said he was...

In this article: David Frost, Kevin Rudd, Al Jazeera, Austar, London, Asean, Al Jazeera English, and Nakheel

Rudd has appointed Dennis Richardson as its new head. This is very much a Rudd appointment, rather than one by Foreign Minister Stephen Smith. If anyone can revive DFAT it is Richardson, as tough and shrewd and energetic a bureaucratic...

In this article: Kevin Rudd, Australia, George W. Bush, John Howard, Climate change, Kurt Campbell, United States, China, and India

...are aware that Australia has been supportive of Indian candidature for permanent membership at the UN Security Council,' Prakash said. Rudd's visit to India comes less than a month after Stephen Smith, Australian Foreign Minister's visit.

In this article: Australia, India, Kevin Rudd, New Delhi, UN Security Council, Melbourne, and Canberra

...observers and independent journalists too have been turned away. This is the place to which Rudd dispatched Foreign Minister Stephen Smith to work out a collaborative arrangement to ''stop the boats''. Is there no moral threshold our leaders...

In this article: Maritime Union of Australia, Colombo, Linda Evangelista, Kevin Rudd, Australia, Bambalapitiya, Sri Lanka, Unicef, and World War II

...its patience in resolving a stand-off that is in its fourth week. The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and the Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, are at the APEC conference in Singapore this week where they will seek progress on regional...

In this article: Indonesia, Kevin Rudd, Indonesian Navy, APEC, Australia, and New Zealand

...through some tense times but we're confident that we're now effectively back to business as usual," Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said. The thaw was on show when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd met China's Premier Wen Jiabao on the...

In this article: China, Australia, Rio Tinto, Kevin Rudd, Li Keqiang, and Wen Jiabao

...tale around Parliament - an entirely plausible one - concerning the moment a newly elected Kevin Rudd rang Stephen Smith and asked him to be the foreign minister. Having a young family and being from Perth, Smith was already conscious of the...

In this article: Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Wilson Tuckey, China, Climate change, Perth, Western Australia, and Manus Island