The view from elsewhere
29 November 2024
For everyone’s benefit, the leaders of Canada and Mexico shouldn’t be intimidated by Donald Trump’s tariff threat
Books & arts
6 November 2024
A former trade negotiator sets out to improve trade’s profile and reputation
International
24 October 2024
All signs suggest that China is in the grip of a long, self-induced economic slowdown
National affairs
26 August 2024
Labor’s Future Made in Australia policy risks entrenching opaque subsidies in a favoured sector
Books & arts
24 April 2024
Connecting everything to everything else didn’t dissolve power, it embedded it
International
24 January 2024
“Keeping the sea lanes open” comes with rarely considered opportunity costs
Correspondents
22 September 2023
Brazil’s energetic president is set on galvanising the non-Western BRICS grouping, not least to fight climate change
Books & arts
5 September 2023
The Great War brought the drive for international trade and cooperation to a disastrous end
Books & arts
25 August 2023
A new biography reveals Tim Fischer to have been a more complex figure than he might have seemed
National affairs
27 June 2023
Signs suggest the warming of Australia–China relations has slowed to a glacial pace
International
31 March 2023
Let’s start with the good news about Australia–India relations
National affairs
20 March 2023
The latest Productivity Commission report marks the end of an era
International
8 February 2023
A new generation of sailing vessels is highlighting the challenge of reducing shipping emissions
Books & arts
25 January 2023
A Financial Times columnist says yes, but the figures tell a different story
National affairs
23 November 2021
A government commitment to buy Australian-made goods and services is not as positive as it sounds
National affairs
27 October 2021
Sovereign countries sharing the same currency, euro-style, have been a recipe for disaster. So why has the idea endured?
National affairs
12 October 2021
The Chinese government’s power to control the fallout from a property crash is a reminder of just how far it has to go — and how far it has gone backwards — in freeing its…
National affairs
4 October 2021
Australia’s retreat to the Anglosphere has implications beyond defence and trade
National affairs
9 September 2021
Australia’s recycling ambitions aren’t being matched by action
National affairs
3 August 2021
When security masquerades as economics, the result is a poorer and less secure society
National affairs
23 July 2021
On climate, Barnaby Joyce is a speed bump about to be run over by a monster truck
National affairs
8 June 2021
Reducing Australia’s reliance on international supply chains is mostly unnecessary and could actually increase the risk of shortages
National affairs
5 April 2021
Australia is struggling to live with China, but can’t live without it. What can be done?
National affairs
1 March 2021
With hundreds of thousands still unemployed, the Reserve Bank is under growing pressure to do more
National affairs
15 February 2021
The Labor and Liberal parties are in a race to the bottom in too many areas of economic policy
National affairs
11 February 2021
Australia’s climate policy failures are set to create a new revenue stream for major trading partners
Books & arts
10 February 2021
Books | Australia’s decision to join the United States in competition with China has backfired damagingly
Books & arts
30 November 2020
Books | The links have been quietly developing for decades, but there’s still much more Australia can learn from its nearest eastern neighbour
National affairs
9 November 2020
President Biden will buy Australia time, but the structural forces that produced the Trump presidency won’t go away
National affairs
27 October 2020
Treat with care the claims that Australia can readily diversify its trade and investment