Trade
Australia and US to hold new talks on Trans-Pacific Partnership
US governors have backed Malcolm Turnbull’s bid to persuade Donald Trump to strike a new deal.
- by David Crowe
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Donald Trump
China trying to enforce claim to South China Sea: Trump advisor
China is turning its newly-built islands in the South China Sea into bases so it can enforce its claim to own the entire international waterway.
- by Peter Hartcher
North America
Trump wants to turn space into the next free-market paradise
America’s regulations for off-planet activity were written in the 1980s. They’re about to be remade, with a capitalist bent.
- by Justin Bachman
The Economy
TPP: New Zealand sheds light on the deal Australia is about to sign
New Zealand has released the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership 11 trade agreement.
- by Peter Martin
Donald Trump
Republican senators urge Trump to rejoin Trans-Pacific Partnership
A powerful group of US state governors is clearing the way for Malcolm Turnbull to strike new trade and investment deals.
- by David Crowe
Donald Trump
'Worst-case scenario': Why China's strongest weapon in trade war with Trump could backfire
As tensions escalate between the US and China, one crop is emerging as the most powerful weapon in a potential trade war: the soy bean.
Alexander Downer
Alexander Downer told the BBC 'blathering nonsense': ex-minister
Food and clothes could cost Brits less after Brexit, outgoing high commissioner Alexander Downer told the BBC. A former Blair minister says this is nonsense.
- by Nick Miller
Politics
Obscure agency handed $3.8b boost to fund Australian arms exports
It is a remarkable boost for EFIC which in the past year approved $60,000 in financing for the producers of a "Supernatural Nazis" film and Melbourne based geometric crystal exporter "Stoned Crystals".
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Analysis
Donald Trump
Serving two masters? Australia feels heat of Trump's anti-China push
Donald Trump's new and more muscular rhetoric against China signals difficulties in Australia's vital relations with both powers.
- by Mark Kenny
Bill Shorten
Labor calls for independent modelling before backing TPP deal
Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten says it would be "very, very, very foolish" for the government not to seek independent modelling on the international trade deal.
- by Felicity Caldwell
New Indian tariff to hit Australian farmers
Australian farmers have hit out at a new 30 per cent tariff introduced by the Indian Government on imported chickpeas and lentils.
- by Darren Gray