With Huawei’s aspirations to provide infrastructure for Australia’s 5G network dashed, attention must now shift to another major foreign investment proposal: the planned acquisition of APA Group, an Australian-owned and -controlled company, by Hong Kong’s …
President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda is a dramatic departure from US leadership of a multilateral order that has been the guiding norm for over 70 years. That order defines the rules of trade and …
Gender equality offers a sizeable economic opportunity for any country. A government that hopes to achieve strong growth without tapping into women’s full potential is essentially fighting with one hand tied behind its back. In …
The new Oz–China icy age blows through many Australian worlds: security, economics and trade, social, diplomatic and political. The orbits of these worlds converge, shifting political tides and disrupting social weather. Traditionally, dragon slayers worry …
Populists abhor restraints on the political executive. Since they claim to represent ‘the people’ writ large, they regard limits on their exercise of power as necessarily undermining the popular will. Such constraints can only serve …
