Australia’s ‘five pillar economy’ ‑ manufacturing
There is a future for manufacturing in Australia - but we need to follow some international lessons to build a competitive knowledge-based economy.
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Victims of the green energy boom? The Indonesians facing eviction over a China‑backed plan to turn their island into a solar panel ‘ecocity’
The international quest for green energy is reliant on ‘sacrificial zones’ in developing countries.
The rise and fall of globalisation: the battle to be top dog
In each era of globalisation since the mid-17th century, a single country has sought to be the clear world leader – shaping the rules of the global economy for all.
In Conversation Jared Diamond: full transcript
Peter Christoff: Your book, The World Until Yesterday, is really the third in a series on societies and their futures. Guns, Germs, and Steel was really a short history of everybody of the last 13,000…
The unpalatable truth about bio‑fuels, hunger and political unrest
FOOD SECURITY - The World Bank has warned rising food prices have risen 36% in the last year, reaching dangerous levels and pushing millions into poverty. The unrest in the Middle East, Africa and Haiti…
Learning from COVID: how to improve future supplies of medical equipment and vaccines
Supply chains, choke points, and ‘just in time’ manufacturing – where things went right and wrong during the pandemic.
Federal budget 2014: political experts react
The Abbott government is hoping an A$11.6 billion infrastructure spending package, combined with a $20 billion medical research fund, will help soften the blow of widespread tightening of health and welfare…
The Trump revolution: where it came from and where it’s going
As Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing itself as it enters the beginning of the second Trump Revolution.
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