Canberra’s top bureaucrats best paid in the world
For reasons beyond mortal reckoning, Australia’s top public servants are apparently worth more than double and triple their US and UK counterparts. Perhaps we could use our own version of Elon Musk?
For reasons beyond mortal reckoning, Australia’s top public servants are apparently worth more than double and triple their US and UK counterparts. Perhaps we could use our own version of Elon Musk?
Donald Trump’s administration has sent a decisive message that will shake the world. Signs of a peace deal in Ukraine are emerging along with evidence that the President will scale back the US global alliance system and leave Europe to deter Vladimir Putin.
Transforming Gaza into ‘the Riviera of the Middle East’ would present overwhelming challenges – not least from Hamas. But it’s worth looking at the feasibility and implications of US President Donald Trump’s proposal.
One can only speculate on the extent of co-ordination between the US President and the Israeli Prime Minister on Gaza, but the impression is that senior Israelis have been as surprised by Trump’s recent statements as everyone else.
Finance industry heavyweights failed to agree on diversity reporting guidelines for ASX-listed companies at a Friday meeting.
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Mark Vaile, the man who negotiated Australia’s 2004 FTA with the US, says Donald Trump’s move to embrace reciprocal tariffs represents a serious challenge to the global system of free trade.
Australia’s sharemarket continued its rally higher on Friday as traders factored in a more reserved Donald Trump on US tariffs.
While Donald Trump is shaking up the global system, our central bank is on the verge of its own earth-shattering move.
The US continues to bang the tariff drum but markets are betting a full-scale trade war will be averted, as European stocks soar on growing hopes the Russia-Ukraine war will soon end.
donald Trump has offered to sell fighter jets to India as he and Narendra Modi rekindled a bond that defies the new US administration’s punitive approach to much of the world.
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Despite concerns over the future of steel and aluminium exports to the US, Australia has avoided the latest tariff assault from Donald Trump.
The sweeping tariffs are a dramatic escalation of an international trade war that economists warn could fuel inflation at home.
As well as being consistent with the history of post war reconstruction and recovery, the president’s plan opens a path to a better future for the region.
Donald Trump would be unwise to ignore the grave threat to European security that could potentially follow any peace deal that effectively hands Vladimir Putin victory in his brutal Ukrainian gambit.
Vladimir Putin is still bombing Ukrainian cities, including the capital, to cause as much destruction as possible before any peace talks take place.
Trade Minister Don Farrell has conceded there was a ‘ceiling’ on Australian aluminium exports to the US.
Donald Trump has been warned against appeasement of Russia after opening negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, with the US President flagging his opposition to Kyiv joining NATO or a return to pre-2014 borders.
A slowdown in government spending in Victoria is putting the brakes on Downer EDI’s transport services business, but renewable energy projects remain a strong growth opportunity.
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