Category Archives: Australia

Why Suburbs Must Be the Next Frontier for Cities Policy

The challenge of suburbs for social and environmental policy.

The Silicon Curtain: The Gloves Come Off With China

An Australian perspective on the West’s growing conflict with China.

Global Gains on Right to Repair

The right to repair movement is growing — not just in the US, but in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand as well.

Rethinking Free Trade Agreements in Uncertain Times

Jomo Kwame Sundaram makes the case against the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that went into effect at the end of 2018, for six of its eleven member countries.

Wolf Richter: “Severe Collapse” of Home Prices Might Trigger a “Financial-Institution Crisis” in Australia: OECD Frets about the Banks

Australia looks to be on the verge of a nasty unwind of its housing bubble. A plunge would damage not only its banks but also retirement funds, since banks play an outsized role in the Australian stock market.

Protecting Coral Reefs: Sustainable Scuba Diving Practices

PADI, the world’s largest scuba diving training and certification group, and British conservation charity Reef-World Foundation, have joined forces to support the Green Fins scheme, to mitigate the impact of recreational diving on already-stressed coral reefs.

Australia’s New Grain Deliveries Plunge Due to Drought

Another sign of climate change induced stress, this one from Australia.

Shall We Kill the Hay Exports or the Cows?

Hay has become a scarce resource in Australia, and not for the best reasons.

EU Shows Up UK Brexit Trade Fantasies by Opening Bi-Lateral Negotiations With Australia and New Zealand

Yet another Brexit black eye.

China Warns Australia Against Being a Democracy

China throws its weight around even more casually than the US does, achieving the difficult task of making Trump look not so bad.

BIS Warns on Household Debt

Credit booms tend to go hand in hand with a misallocation of resources – most notably towards the construction sector – and a slowdown in productivity growth, with long-lasting adverse effects on the real economy.