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Michele Bullock at her last press conference of 2025 explaining the direction of interest rate movements.

Five years of slow decay: Bullock’s grim warning for future

Two years into her job as Reserve Bank governor, Michele Bullock is worried that the next five years will be a slow-moving disaster for the world.

  • Shane Wright

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In Donald Trump’s absence from APEC, China’s Xi Jinping was top dog

‘They’re killing their own customers’: Beijing, we have a $1.5 trillion problem

China has posted a record trade surplus of more than $US1 trillion, and that is before the year is even finished. Its trading partners are threatening to revolt.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump in front of a US dollar bill and gold bar

Trump has orchestrated a golden age for Australia

China’s epochal rise was the driver of Australia’s first resource boom, but in 2025 Trump has engineered something almost as astounding. 

  • Colin Kruger
Duqm port in Oman.

Last drinks at the Omani cantina: The shadow fleet behind Australia’s fuel supply

Like the Star Wars version, the dry dock in Oman is a desert-rimmed magnet for misfits and ne’er-do-wells.

  • Mark Corrigan
The Trump administration will use the British deal as a model for talks with other developed nations.

Australia in talks with US over Trump demands to pay more for medicine

A White House official said the general structure of the deal – under which other countries pay more for medicines or face punitive trade measures – was the model for talks with other nations.

  • Michael Koziol and Natassia Chrysanthos
Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Trade and Tourism and Special Minister of State Don Farrell at a press conference in Melbourne, Victoria, during the 2025 federal election campaign. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Mercedes, Ferrari’s future a bargaining chip as Australia talks trade with Europe

Australia is using the lure of critical minerals fuelling BMW and Ferrari’s future production of green vehicles as it tries to land a new trade deal.

  • Paul Sakkal
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The US is the biggest buyer of Australian beef.

Australian beef exempted from US tariffs as Trump cops cost-of-living backlash

US President Donald Trump removed tariffs on certain food and agricultural products including Australian beef as he responded to growing unrest from American consumers over the cost of living.

  • Michael Koziol and Mike Foley
Trump flew to Miami to address the America Business Forum.

Trump’s man left court feeling ‘optimistic’ – analysts saw it differently

Scott Bessent has a good feeling about how the Supreme Court will rule on the legality of the US president’s tariffs, but analysts read the judges’ comments another way.

  • Michael Koziol
US President Donald Trump greets a family dressed as employees of a McDonald’s drive-through during a Halloween event on the South Lawn of the White House.

Treat or trick? Why Trump won the trade truce but may yet lose the war

The US president has effectively wielded tariffs as a weapon to beat other countries into advantageous deals. But Beijing has shown it can - and will - fight back.

  • Michael Koziol
Xi and Trump

Trump-Xi meeting as it happened: Trump shakes hands with ‘tough negotiator’ as Xi says China and MAGA go ‘hand in hand’

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have departed after meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea for almost two hours.

  • Lisa Visentin

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