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  • 28 Feb 2025
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: A fairy tale response to Trump’s tariffs

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s retirement savings pool is an important new economic relations lever, but it can only be rolled out so many times.
  • 28 Feb 2025
    • Australia's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • Resource security

    How the West can shore up its strategic metals supply chain

    Huw McKay
    With policy design in flux, a five-step plan could drive innovation and private-public cooperation on vital resources.
  • 18 Feb 2025
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Lessons for Australia’s policy dilemmas from America’s “post-Neoliberal delusion”

    Jenny Gordon
    Economists prefer pricing approaches, but restricting choice through regulatory requirements is far more common – and carries a cost.
  • 6 Feb 2025
    • Australia's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • Trade

    Is Australia in the tariff firing line?

    Jenny Gordon
    Trump’s plans are less about economics and more about coercion.
  • 30 Jan 2025
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States

    Trump’s trade policy: Risks for Australia

    Stephen Moran
    With tariff threats against both friend and foe, regional trade agreements will assume greater importance.
  • 20 Jan 2025
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Is DOGE the answer to improving productivity?

    Jenny Gordon
    Putting fear into the bureaucracy is not a way to encourage better results.
  • 12 Dec 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy

    US tariffs are nothing new – history should be our guide

    Annmaree O’Keeffe
    With a change of guard in the White House, Australia could take its lead from Chifley’s art of the deal.
  • 2 Dec 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy

    Australian industrial policy more liberal and less distortionary than most

    Robert Walker
    Australia followed the crowd as a new wave of industrial policies swept the globe. Six months on, it is useful to hold the government to account.
  • 14 Nov 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Economic diplomacy: It’s populists vs plutocrats in Trump Take 2

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s hopes of a modest economic impact from the Trump administration’s actions will require navigating the financial tensions at its heart.
  • 12 Sep 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Australia's Economy
    • Pacific Islands

    The real risks of exploitation for Pacific workers in Australia

    Sophia Kagan
    While neither blackbirding nor systemic modern slavery, the PALM scheme has many loopholes that should be addressed.
  • 22 Aug 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: Playing defence with Prabowo

    Greg Earl
    New security cooperation with Indonesia does not make up for the slow progress in building fresh economic links.
  • 27 Jun 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy

    Economic diplomacy: Ringfencing the Lucky Country

    Greg Earl
    Some key Australian economic figures are embracing the new economics of national resilience in distinctive ways.
  • 29 May 2024
    • India
    • India's Economy
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Trade

    A growth agenda for India-Australia economic ties

    Soumya Bhowmick , Nilanjana Das
    Recent steps forward on the trade front have also cleared the way for greater ambition in the partnership.
  • 28 May 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Defence & Security

    The cultural change needed to align security and economics

    Jennifer Jackett
    How the world works has changed, and so must we.
  • 21 May 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Defence & Security
    • Diplomacy

    Putting dollars behind “all tools of statecraft”

    Tom Barber
    The budget papers offer a chance to assess the government’s claims against fiscal reality.
  • 16 May 2024
    • Asean
    • China
    • India
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Papua New Guinea

    Economic diplomacy: Budgeting for deglobalisation

    Greg Earl
    Keeping up with the worldwide shift to industry policy is stretching boundaries of both economics and diplomacy.
  • 15 May 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Sustainability

    Australia’s new gas strategy makes for flawed foreign policy

    James Bowen
    Simultaneously advancing energy security in Asia and climate security in the Pacific is both possible and desirable.
  • 13 May 2024
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Chinese Trade
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Trade

    Made in Australia meets China’s export juggernaut

    Henry Storey
    China’s irrepressible appetite for Australian resources will severely complicate the country’s manufacturing renaissance.
  • 2 May 2024
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • G20
    • Geo-economics
    • Multilateral Development Banks

    Economic diplomacy: It’s nostalgists vs strategists

    Greg Earl
    As a new Treasurer claims a geo-economic legacy in industrial policy, his predecessor’s once shiny G20 triumph has been dumped.
  • 22 Apr 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy

    Ensuring the “Future Made in Australia Act” doesn’t add to a global subsidy arms race

    Marina Yue Zhang
    Let alone widen Australia’s economic and social divides.
  • 4 Apr 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • International Public Opinion
    • Public Opinion Polling

    Economic diplomacy: Hanging on in ASEAN

    Greg Earl
    Australia faces growing competition for influence among its old friends in Southeast Asia as China’s power rises.
  • 22 Mar 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China-Australia Relations

    Australia confronts an Indonesian nickel glut

    Henry Storey
    Competition over strategic commodities may increasingly define the economic relationship between the two producers.
  • 23 Feb 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia's Defence Challenges
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Defence Force
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australian Foreign Aid
    • Defence & Security

    Economic diplomacy: Strategic funding comes in from the cold

    Greg Earl
    A new review may cast a revealing light on how the government uses third-party institutions to shape the country’s strategic thinking.
  • 9 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • United States

    Middle East turmoil and a US pause offer Australia LNG opportunities

    Ian Satchwell
    On the way to net-zero, there is a chance to help bolster Asia’s regional energy security.
  • 7 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • Malaysia
    • Singapore
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Defence & Security

    The role of Singapore, Malaysia and Australia in ASEAN centrality

    Muhammad Faizal Abdul Rahman
    Cooperation, especially on security and the economy, is key to countering pressure from outside the bloc.
  • 2 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesian Elections
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy

    What a new Indonesian president may mean for Australia

    Andree Surianta
    People exchanges between the two countries will deepen the economic partnership, regardless of leadership change.
  • 18 Jan 2024
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: To market, to market, with China

    Greg Earl
    New Cabinet papers reveal the origins of trade pragmatism and the Coalition’s embrace of communism with market characteristics.
  • 17 Jan 2024
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Africa

    Australia and Africa: Economic diplomacy is out of sync with investment ties

    Ian Satchwell
    While other partners are taking care of business, Australia lacks the trade support it needs to thrive.
  • 7 Dec 2023
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Geo-economics
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: Pulling the right global value chain

    Greg Earl
    Australia is now a big exporter of “bottleneck products” in a deglobalising world, just as it tries to rebuild manufacturing.
  • 6 Nov 2023
    • Australia's Economy
    • Global Economy

    Fighting risk in everything, everywhere, all at once

    Jenny Gordon
    Most government institutions are not designed to consider more than their portfolio of interests – and that doesn’t work in a more complex world.
  • 24 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • United States
    • US Economy

    How should Australia react to Bidenomics?

    Stephen Grenville
    Difference in philosophy is not to be feared.
  • 18 Oct 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Global Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Trade
    • United States
    • US Economy

    Australia must play the geoeconomics game, or risk being side-lined

    Naoise McDonagh
    The world is moving away from a rules-based order and towards power politics. Is Canberra ready?
  • 3 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Five reasons why the government mustn’t cool its heels on an “Australian IRA”

    Elizabeth Thurbon , Alexander M. Hynd , Hao Tan
    What cause could be more important than the economic, energy, and environmental security of the nation and the future of the planet?
  • 29 Sep 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Diplomacy

    Great expectations: Australia’s elusive Southeast Asia vision

    Stephen Grenville
    Diplomacy, economic partnerships, copper mines and instant noodles - the Moore Report has much to reflect on.
  • 15 Sep 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Technology

    Critical minerals, critical choices: Australia’s role in shaping the green revolution

    Connor O’Brien
    “Resource nationalism” only poses a threat to mining policy if the government pretends it’s not happening.
  • 1 Sep 2023
    • Philippines
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian Defence Force

    The Philippines and Australia: A new golden era of strategic relations?

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    Canberra’s defence ties with Manila have gone from strength to strength. Now it’s time to step up economic linkages.
  • 31 Aug 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australian Foreign Aid

    Economic diplomacy: Spirit of Australia charts a fresh course

    Greg Earl
    The government is fashioning a more interventionist economic leg to the new amity between its aid policy, regional diplomacy and military spending.
  • 13 Jun 2023
    • Australia's Economy
    • US Economy

    The end of the neo-liberal order?

    Stephen Grenville
    With a new consensus in Washington, it’s time for Canberra to consider a shake-up of misguided industrial policy.
  • 11 May 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy

    Economic diplomacy: Paying for a new security era

    Greg Earl
    The budget contains some tantalising hints about future foreign policy, offset by some doleful old realities.
  • 1 May 2023
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Finding opportunity in Asia’s net-zero transition

    Muyi Yang
    Australia will miss out if it doesn’t prepare for lower coal and gas exports.
  • 17 Mar 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian Navy
    • Defence & Security

    The limits on Australia’s submarine industry

    John Edwards
    Long before the last boat is delivered, the business will be winding down.
  • 2 Feb 2023
    • China
    • Vietnam
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • IMF
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: Diversification is hard to do

    Greg Earl
    Treasurer Jim Chalmers should rise above outdated jibes at the IMF to justify his aims for a new values-based economy.
  • 8 Sep 2022
    • Aid & Development
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Migration
    • Pacific Islands

    Economic diplomacy: Nation building at home and abroad

    Greg Earl
    A jobs summit highlighted the challenges in crafting a foreign policy for the middle class and balanced development aid.
  • 23 Aug 2022
    • Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade

    Asia skills critical to Australia’s economic future and security

    Leigh Howard
    Regional expertise needs to extend well beyond base literacy and towards a more Asia-capable workforce.
  • 11 Aug 2022
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Defence & Security
    • Global Economy
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: No free lunches for national security

    Greg Earl
    New foreign investment rules, nuisance tariffs and supply chains are all under scrutiny by the Productivity Commission.
  • 9 May 2022
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • European Union
    • United Kingdom
    • France

    The time is right for Australia to forge stronger ties with Europe

    Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo
    A new world has created new opportunities in energy, security and diplomacy that Canberra should grab without delay.
  • 20 Apr 2022
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia's Economy
    • Asean
    • Australia and Asia

    Strategic divergence: Australia’s Southeast Asia challenge

    Susannah Patton
    Australia’s next government needs to find ways to relate to the region that don’t depend on geopolitical alignment.
  • 10 Feb 2022
    • Asia
    • Global Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia

    Economic diplomacy: Mission critical as Australia’s own BRI gains pace

    Greg Earl
    Australia’s new embrace of South Korea in minerals, defence, and trade is well-timed as the country catches up to Japan.
  • 27 Jan 2022
    • Australia's Economy
    • IMF
    • Papua New Guinea

    Bitcoin vs the IMF, and other great expectations

    Greg Earl
    A roundup of recent economic events foreshadows a year of flux and reinvention, from Europe to the Pacific.
  • 28 Dec 2021
    • China's Economy
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia
    • China

    China’s economic punishment – Best of The Interpreter 2021

    The Interpreter
    Beijing sought to make Australia pay as a diplomatic freeze deepened. But the sanction didn’t entirely go to plan.
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