Evaluation of a “Critical Mass” agreement on agriculture
The stalemate in Geneva on the December 2013 Bali Agreement concerning both Trade Faciliation and agriculture subsidies has revived some interest ...
Category: Foreign policy
Governed by the gutless?
Alan Beattie’s new booklet “Who’s in Charge Here” (Amazon) is an amusing, accurate, accessible account of the current mess in global financial and trad...
No spring for shiite Syria
Robert Fisk’s unsentimental analysis of Assad’s strengths As long as Syria can trade with Iraq, it can trade with Iran and, of course, it can trade with Le...
Irresitsible engines
Glen Steven’s questions, in his inaugural Warren Hogan lecture, about the expectation of emerging Asia — that they will assume a prominent role shapin...
The unanswered question about 9–11
Robert Fisk is such a rewarding historian of international policy because his contacts are so broad and his experience is so long and because he wri...
That High Court decision
The Prime Minister is “deeply disappointed” with the decision on the plan to send Christmas Island arrivals to Malaysia. Understandable; it’s not a goo...
The foreign buck stops here
Why does the Australian government create investment hurdles at the “border” for foreigners who want to put their money into the growth of our econo...