Global Economy
Australia needs to resource a merchant fleet
On Friday, DP World Australia, the company operating container terminals at four of Australia’s largest ports, was brought to its knees by a cyber-attack. The impact on the flow…
Economic diplomacy: Labor’s green security state rises
Tunnel vision
Last Sunday inner city Sydney residents got their first chance to walk inside a 24-kilometre labyrinth of intersecting underground road junction tunnels, which is…
Private finance cannot lead the global response to climate change
In response to the looming trillion-dollar global climate finance shortfall, a broad array of policymakers, international bureaucrats, environmentalists, and financial…
Ukraine’s energy fightback
As the northern winter approaches, there are signs that Russia is again stepping up its bombing campaign targeting Ukrainian energy facilities. Beginning in October 2022 and…
Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership is a glass half full
Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) was signed with well-meaning intentions to raise climate ambition by accelerating the energy sector’s transition to…
Fighting risk in everything, everywhere, all at once
A big debate has kicked off about the interaction of security and the economy as being far more complex in the present than in the Cold War era, when the United States and Soviet…
Mineral futures: A critical step for Albanese’s Beijing trip
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's visit to meet China’s President Xi Jinping underscores that the turbulent waves of Australia-China relations are calming down. On the…
Infrastructure for influence: Pacific Islands building spree
There is a building spree going on in our neighbourhood as Pacific Island countries leverage geopolitical rivalries to fill a huge gap. A rough estimate is that the region needs…
Outward bound: We should celebrate Australian investment overseas
Australian miners and bankers are globally competitive wherever they operate. And yet what Australian businesses are doing abroad is rarely celebrated with the same interest as…
Dashed hopes for Australia, Europe still has blind spots on trade
The unsurprising announcement came overnight by Trade Minister Don Farrell that Australia has decided to walk away from negotiations on free trade agreement with the European…