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International
The Saudi oil shock: a symptom of a much bigger economic risk
Adam Triggs
19 September 2019
Is a highly integrated global economy starting to come apart at the seams?
National affairs
China’s postmodern experiment
Hamish McDonald
3 September 2019
Xi Jinping’s strategy has become clearer, and it needs a more sophisticated response from the West
International
Allies behaving badly
Hamish McDonald
12 August 2019
Has Trumpism taken hold among US-aligned countries in East Asia?
International
Don’t mention the (trade) war
Adam Triggs
1 July 2019
Amid missed opportunities, Scott Morrison scored an unexpected win
National affairs
Trump’s trade deal won’t work. The G20’s will
Adam Triggs
2 December 2018
The weekend’s summit in Buenos Aires showed that the G20 is holding the line against Donald Trump’s attacks on the rules that govern trade
National affairs
The great trade-off
Joo-Cheong Tham & Keith Ewing
23 November 2018
Will promised protections in Australia’s trade agreements really safeguard employees’ rights?
National affairs
Australia and India: is it different this time?
Robin Jeffrey
14 August 2018
Along with the vast increase in migration, most signs point to increased cooperation between Australia and India
National affairs
Forty years on, a sense of history gives way to alarm
Tim Colebatch
23 July 2018
Experts gathered in Canberra last week to pool their views about China’s forty-year record of economic reform, but Donald Trump’s trade war pushed its way to centrestage
Correspondents
The elephant in the bedroom
Jonathan Malloy
13 July 2018
Canadians find themselves caught in an uncomfortably close relationship with Donald Trump’s America
Essays & reportage
China and Australia’s fifth icy age
Graeme Dobell
10 May 2018
Relations have been cool before, and will be cool again — though domestic issues are complicating the picture
National affairs
A Macron moment
Natalie J. Doyle
3 May 2018
Macronmania came to Australia this week, but back in France the president might be facing his “Thatcher moment”
Essays & reportage
Untangling the hair trade
Assa Doron & Robin Jeffrey
28 April 2018
Extract
| Discarded hair makes a circuitous journey from India to the West, gathering value along the way
Essays & reportage
When Chifley met Nehru, and the Commonwealth’s transformation began
David Fettling
18 April 2018
The Australian prime minister knew that any attempt to resurrect the old British Empire in Asia was doomed to failure
National affairs
ASEAN and Australia peer down from the summit
Graeme Dobell
19 March 2018
Shared hopes and fears were on display at the weekend’s meeting in Sydney
National affairs
Australia today: slow growth, high debt
Tim Colebatch
13 March 2018
Behind the day-to-day swings in the economic data are worrying longer-term trends
Books & arts
Up to a point, Professor Hamilton
Frank Bongiorno
8 March 2018
Books
| Has Clive Hamilton written what one critic called a “McCarthyist manifesto”?
National affairs
Good advice, and puzzling blind spots, in the IMF’s latest report on Australia
Tim Colebatch
23 February 2018
The International Monetary Fund gets some things right and some things wrong — but you wouldn’t necessarily know which from the coverage it’s had
International
China in the Pacific: a question of influence
Graeme Smith
16 October 2017
Exaggerated fears about China’s intentions reflect a misunderstanding of what’s happening in the region
Correspondents
A break in the European clouds
James Panichi
19 September 2017
Europe is shipshape and ready for action, according to the European Union’s top official
International
Herding (paper) cats
Antonia Finnane
5 September 2017
China’s conundrum in the Asia-Pacific creates an opportunity for Australia
Correspondents
The land that fell to earth
David Hayes
16 August 2017
Britain has spiralled into political failure since voting to leave the European Union. What happened, and what happens next?
International
The OECD joins the backlash against unfettered globalisation
John Quiggin
9 June 2017
But can an organisation that has promoted a globalised world economy take on the massively powerful finance sector?
Correspondents
Korean wave runs aground on China’s rocky shore
Duncan Hewitt
18 May 2017
The THAAD missile controversy has provoked anger in Beijing and consternation in Korea, and has even dented China’s love affair with Korean TV dramas
National affairs
Tobacco takes a soft-power hit
Robert Milliken
16 May 2017
Australia’s pioneering laws, likely to survive the latest legal actions, are having an impact around the world
Correspondents
Battling asbestos, one step at a time
Tom Greenwell
11 May 2017
Recent events have revealed the power of the asbestos industry – and, in Indonesia, a powerful determination to fight it
National affairs
Why gas prices went sky-high, and what governments need to do about it
Tim Colebatch
16 March 2017
A true story of government controls, utility privatisations, and the incentive to export
International
A line in the water
Michael Leach
12 January 2017
This week’s joint announcement has cleared the way for progress on Australia’s maritime boundary with Timor-Leste
National affairs
The plight of Australia
William Coleman
19 December 2016
Is Australia caught in a Panglossian clench? The editor of
Only in Australia
responds to
Inside Story
’s review
Essays & reportage
The plight of the Right
John Edwards
5 December 2016
Reality fails to align with theory in a new conservative analysis of what makes Australia exceptional
Correspondents
Palmer’s folly and the road to New Caledonian independence
Nic Maclellan
26 May 2016
The closure of Clive Palmer’s Yabulu nickel smelter affects workers – and the political system – in New Caledonia as well as Townsville, writes
Nic Maclellan
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