I whole heartedly endorse key recommendations of a federal inquiry into the diversification of trade that called for establishing a national development bank, as recommended in the NCC’s White Paper. Manufacturing: double production by 2035, which formed the basis of a submission to the inquiry. These policies are urgently needed to start decoupling Australia from…
Paul Kelly in The Australian has rightly praised Scott Morrison for his “relentless soft-power diplomacy for much of the past year” that has helped bring together the first country leaders meeting of the Quad, Indo-Pacific leader’s forum. As Kelly says: The statement from the four leaders — Biden, Japan’s Yoshihide Suga, Morrison and India’s Narendra…
The ABC has posted a revealing article, Health professionals warn Australia is struggling to deal with post-COVID-19 medication shortage, that details Australia’s continuing medication shortage. I dealt with this in this article: In response to Australia’s global supply chain vulnerability being exposed by the pandemic, the National Party’s policy initiatives committee has produced a welcome 20-page…
China is now the world’s largest food importer and imports will continue to increase as China’s food self-sufficiency will drop to around 91 percent by 2025, down from 94.5 percent in 2015. Writing in Newsweek, Gordon G. Chang, the author of The Coming Collapse of China, said that this was inevitable because of floods in the…
