Petra Rees

Petra ReesDeputy Editor

THE Australia-China free trade agreement is expected to give a billion-dollar boost to beef exports.

SID MAHER

AUSTRALIAN hotel, tourism, health and aged care companies will win the right to invest directly in China under a free trade deal.

SID MAHER

THE Abbott government’s infrastructure tsar has declared the new G20 body should drive an upsurge of private-sector-led investment.

ANNABEL HEPWORTH and Andrew White

THE free-trade agreement has been so long coming that it seems inconceivable that there could be any business still out there waiting for a result.

Rowan Callick and comment

AUSTRALIA has been persuaded to give a more fulsome commitment to fight Ebola in West Africa.

SEAN PARNELL

THE G20 nations have for the first time agreed to implement specific policies to meet the growth challenge set by Joe Hockey.

THE world’s biggest economies expect to conclude the final stage of a major overhaul of international tax arrangements by 2015.

CONFRONTATIONS with world leaders have piled new pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw his country’s troops from Ukraine.

DAVID CROWE

ONE of the great chefs of the world is to take on one of its most famous buildings.

JOHN LETHLEAN and MICHAELA BOLAND

WITNESSES may not be covered by parliamentary privilege at the Clive Palmer-inspired Senate inquiry into the Newman government.