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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds a booklet as he delivers an address to the National Press Club in Canberra, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Morrison used the speech on the eve of Parliament's first sitting day of the year to detail his conservative coalition's record on a diverse range of security issues including military spending, stripping extremists of Australian citizenship, asylum seekers, contentious laws to prevent criminals using encrypted communications and domestic violence. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australian prime minister boasts security credentials

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 10, 2018, file photo, Robert Whittaker reacts after his middleweight mixed martial arts title bout against Yoel Romero at UFC 225 in Chicago. Whittaker defends his UFC middleweight title against Kelvin Gastelum in the main event of UFC 234 in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jim Young, File)

Whittaker pulls out with injury, Adesanya wins at UFC 234

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This photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows an officer extracting methamphetamine from a loudspeaker on Jan. 11, 2019 at the Los Angeles-Long Beach seaport. Australian police arrested six people after what authorities said Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 was the largest single seizure of methamphetamine in the United States and the biggest drug haul bound for Australia. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said 1,728 kilograms (3,800 pounds) of the drug were seized mid-January at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex along with smaller amounts of cocaine and heroin. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)

6 people arrested after largest US-Australian meth seizure

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

In this June 14, 2017, photo, leader of the opposition party Bill Shorten holds a photograph of Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and Chinese businessman Huang Xiangmo during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. Australia has cancelled the residency of Huang but the foreign minister says she doesn't expect Beijing to protest. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australia ends residency of high-profile Chinese businessman

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, photo, Bahraini Hakeem al-Araibi, center, leaves the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's government insists it cannot free Hakeem who has refugee status in Australia until hearings on Bahrain's request for his extradition are completed.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand: Soccer player must go through extradition hearings

By KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA - Associated Press

Former Australian soccer national team member Craig Foster, left, and Vice President of FIFPro Francis Awaritefe wait to meet detained Bahraini soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi as he arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Al-Araibi who has refugee status in Australia pleaded outside a Bangkok court on Monday for Thailand to not send him home to Bahrain, which is seeking his extradition to serve a prison sentence for a crime he denies. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

The Latest: Australia urges Thailand to release footballer

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Detained Bahraini soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi, center, arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. Al-Araibi has said he fled his home country due to political repression and human rights groups and activists fear he risks torture if he is sent back. Bahrain wants him returned to serve a 10-year prison sentence he received in absentia in 2014 for vandalizing a police station, which he denies. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

The Latest: Thai court sets April hearing for soccer player

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EDITORIAL: Australia braces for change

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FILE - This Sept. 4, 2018, file photo shows Nibok refugee settlement on Nauru. Australia announced on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019 that the last child refugees held on the Pacific atoll of Nauru will soon the sent to the United States, ending the banishment of children under the government's harsh asylum-seeker policy as elections loom. (Jason Oxenham/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Australia says last child refugees to leave Nauru camp

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, file photo. Bahraini football player Hakeem al-Araibi answers questions from the waiting journalists as he is brought in to a court in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai prosecutors have submitted a request in court for Thailand to extradite to Bahrain a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Request made in Thai court to send soccer player to Bahrain

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In this Aug. 12, 2018, photo, Canberra Raiders' Sam Williams, left, and Joey Leilua react during a Round 22 NRL rugby match between the Canberra Raiders and the Wests Tigers at GIO Stadium in Canberra, Australia. An Australian football team says it wants to continue Huawei’s longest-ever sports sponsorship despite the Chinese communication giant’s legal wrangle with the United States and its ban from Australia's 5G networks. Huawei has been the major sponsor of the Raiders since 2012 and will consider this year extending its first sponsorship contract with a sports team anywhere in the world. (Lukas Coch/AAP Images via AP)

Australian rugby league team proud of Huawei sponsorship

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this Jan. 24, 2019, photo, a beachgoer jumps off a jetty at Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, Australia, as temperatures climb to 45 Celsius (113 ‎Fahrenheit). Australia has sweltered through its hottest month on record in January and the summer of extremes continues with wildfires razing the drought-parched south while expanses of the tropical north are flooded. (Kelly Barnes/AAP Image via AP)

January was officially Australia’s hottest month on record

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, prison guards escort Bahraini football player Hakeem al-Araibi from a court in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand officially received a request from Bahrain to extradite a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia. The foreign ministry says the request for extraditing Hakeem al-Araibi has been forwarded to prosecutors for deliberation. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Wife of detained refugee soccer player appeals to Thai PM

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In perhaps its largest action, the Justice Department hit the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei with a slew of charges, including stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile. (Associated Press/File)

Q&A: What is Huawei and why does Washington worry about it?

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

A bus branded with TPG ads goes past as a man uses his phone at a bus stop in Sydney, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. TPG Telecom said it had abandoned the rollout of what would have been Australia's fourth mobile network because of the government's ban on Chinese giant Huawei, which would have been the main equipment vendor. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Australia’s TPG abandons mobile network plan over Huawei ban

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison grimaces during a speech in Brisbane, Australia Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Morrison has raised the prospect of the nation suffering its first economic recession in 28 years if the opposition wins general elections due by late May. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)

Australian prime minister warns of recession risk after vote

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Former Australian soccer national team member Craig Foster talks to journalists at The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand after meeting detained refugee Hakeem al-Araibi in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. FIFA has written to the Thai prime minister calling for the release of a Bahraini refugee soccer player who is in detention while embroiled in an extradition case. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

IOC backs FIFA’s calls for Bahraini player to be released

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A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard at the Australian Embassy in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. Australia's foreign minister has urged China to treat a Chinese-Australian writer fairly and says there is no evidence that his detention is part of a backlash against Canada's arrest of a top Chinese telecommunications executive. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China says Australia writer held on national security charge

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FIFA asks Thai premier to release Bahraini soccer player

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Japan's Naomi Osaka takes a drink as she walks to a practice session at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. Osaka will play Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in Saturday's women's final. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Australia bakes in heat that’s sparking fires, taxing grid

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