Australia can remain indispensable to steelmaking while making less money from it. In 2025–26 dollars, the government’s June outlook projects iron ore export earnings to fall from an estimated A$116.6 billion in 2025–26 to A$77.2 …
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Australia needs a government-led national audit to identify where it is most vulnerable to interruption of critical overseas supply. Once the audit is complete, every available policy lever should be used to implement its recommendations …
The visit to Australia this week by Kimi Onoda, Japan’s minister responsible for science, technology and economic security, is a reminder that the strength of the Australia–Japan relationship depends on the depth of its economic …
Once just a marketplace, the financial system is now a weapon of statecraft. Australia’s financial regulators hold the data that shows where the country is most exposed. That intelligence is a national-security asset but sits …
Governments still organise around discrete shocks, yet the operating environment increasingly delivers continuous, concurrent and cascading pressures across economic, social, technological and environmental systems. Australia needs to shift from managing shocks to managing interacting risks, …