Curbing China investment a mistake The Australian | AUSTRALIA will not realise its potential wealth from minerals without opening its doors to Chinese investment. | The idea that allowing government-owned Chinese companies to gain a stake in our resource industries is somehow contrary to the national interest is profoundly mistaken. | When Presiden...
Zoellick a friend of Australia and an effective leader of World Bank The Australian | I MEET him in his vast office at World Bank headquarters on 18th and H streets in Washington. Long and lean, he is the ultimate global insider. | A former US trade representative, a former deputy secretary of state and before that an under-secretary of the treasury, Robert Zoellick - notoriously o...
G8 agrees on 'vision' to halve emissions by 2050 Sydney Morning Herald | THE world's eight major industrialised nations have agreed to adopt a "vision" to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, providing some hope that a global agreement on greenhouse gas reduction can be achieved. | The Prime Minister, Kevin Rud...
Garnaut and the prisoner's dilemma The Australian | Pragmatism, not absolutism, is needed on climate | ONE of the truisms that climate change sceptics need to come to terms with is that the world will, at some point, run out of fossil fuels anyway. This is good reason enough to begin the search for ...
Rudd faces climate revolt The Australian | KEVIN Rudd faces a savage backlash from unions and state Labor over an emissions trading scheme, with calls to offer free permits to polluters in order to protect electricity prices and prevent jobs moving offshore. | In his attack on the Garnaut r...
No credit as oceans turn sour The Australian | NOW that Ross Garnaut's draft report has been released, most of the climate change debate in Australia will focus on the economic effects of any emissions trading scheme. | However, there's another carbon problem, which will profoundly affect our o...
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Sinophile Rudd loses Asian friends Asia Times | By Purnendra Jain | ADELAIDE - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has proposed an Asia-Pacific community by 2020 that would include among others the United States, China, Japan...
Regional grouping 'will free up trade' The Australian | AN Asia-Pacific community could generate major trade benefits as well as other strategic gains for Australia, Kevin Rudd said yesterday. | The Prime Minister acknowledged that hi...
PM defends Asia-Pacific vision Australian Broadcasting Corporation | This is a transcript from AM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 08:00 on ABC Local Radio. | You can also listen to the story in and and formats. | PM defends Asia-Paci...
Dream merchants The Australian | The fifth generation to take the reins of his family business, Arthur Inglis sells thoroughbreds and a shot at fame and fortune. Here is an extract of Glenda Korporaal's interview with him in tomorrow's Wish magazine: | Tucked away in a nondescript...
Greg Hunt The Australian | WE are facing a moment of big history as two conflicting trends gather pace: global development on an unprecedented scale and the need to protect the global environment against the effects of this growth. | The dream of bringing those in India, Chi...
Warrior statesman The Australian | THE retirement of a prominent politician attracts the usual brickbats and bouquets. He did this right. He got that wrong. What was he thinking there? How inspired was that? Alexander Downer, Australia's longest serving foreign minister, who will an...
Curbing China investment a mistake The Australian | AUSTRALIA will not realise its potential wealth from minerals without opening its doors to Chinese investment. | The idea that allowing government-owned Chinese companies to gain a stake in our resource industries is somehow contrary to the national interest is profoundly mistaken. | When President Hu Jintao spent several days tromping around the...
