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Securing Australia’s Asian destiny
The Asia Summit provides fresh perspectives on how Asia is transforming Australia’s future through geopolitical competition, economic growth, technological innovation and social change.
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The Australian Financial Review Asia Summit is a national forum to explore the tensions, trade-offs and synergies between Australia’s effort to advance both its prosperity and its security in the world’s most important region.
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Officials warn US, EU manufacturing boost could hit Australian miners
China is Australia’s largest buyer of resources, and in the last financial year accounted for $156 billion in sales, to feed its factories and power stations.
- Elouise Fowler
Lynas to break China’s heavy rare earths stranglehold
The Amanda Lacaze-led miner will start producing two critical minerals that are essential to the US and its allies from next year.
- Brad Thompson
Hanwha tussles with Austal board over ‘unfair’ diligence conditions
Austal’s would-be acquirer reckons that its third indicative bid was at least 15 per cent higher than that of Cerberus Capital Management.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
China-linked investor fails in hostile bid for Northern Minerals board
Wu Tao, who was ordered by the federal government to sell stock in Northern Minerals, fell short in his push to gain a seat on the strategic rare earths miner.
- Elouise Fowler
- Exclusive
- Pacific diplomacy
Singapore talks aim to ‘Trump-proof’ new economic deal
Trade Minister Don Farrell will lead a delegation of top Australian investors to Singapore amid fears over the future of the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
- Andrew Tillett
June
Rare earths miner hacked after Chinese investors ordered out
A ransomware group has posted CEO emails and sensitive commercial data from miner Northern Minerals on the dark web after Chinese investors were ordered to sell.
- Paul Smith, Elouise Fowler and Andrew Tillett
Migration behind Queensland house price surge: experts
Brisbane has overtaken Melbourne as the second-most expensive city to buy a house and Queensland is now the ‘epicentre’ of the housing crisis, an academic says
- James Hall
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Marles delivers right China message in right forum
The defence minister’s realistic assessment is that Beijing’s aggression is not only a threat but is undermining China’s legitimate self-interests that should be pursued as part of a peaceful and prosperous regional order.
- The AFR View
Australia has ‘security anxieties’ with China even as ties warm
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has called on Beijing to uphold the global rules-based order.
- Updated
- David Rising, Jasmine Ng and Haslinda Amin
May
- Opinion
- AUKUS
Here are the facts about Australia’s nuclear submarine program
The frequent negativity among Australian commentators is detached from the reality of the success to date of the plan’s progress, and the wider strategic reasons for the project. Here are the facts.
- Jennifer Parker
Securing Australia’s Asian destiny
The Asia Summit provides fresh perspectives on how Asia is transforming Australia’s future through geopolitical competition, economic growth, technological innovation and social change.
China-linked entity ousts WA rare earths boss
Northern Minerals’ new executive chairman said the resignation of Nick Curtis created an “alignment” between shareholders and the board.
- Elouise Fowler
Trillion-dollar fund managers pile money into Asia, emerging markets
Schroders is bullish on European and Japanese equities, and Blackrock has gone overweight on emerging markets for the first time since 2020.
- Alex Gluyas
Taiwan’s new president warns China’s threats ‘will not disappear’
Lai Ching-te will build on his predecessor’s efforts to strengthen ties with the US, which is bound by its own laws to provide the island with the means to defend itself.
- Updated
- Jessica Sier
- Opinion
- East Asia Forum
The US-China trade war has helped polarise ASEAN
Regardless of their alignment or dependence on one side or the other, South-East Asian states need to stay focused on their common regional interests.
- Joseph C. Liow
Lendlease sells down Asia venture amid campaign for overhaul
The $147 million sale of a stake in its life sciences business comes as activist investors demand the property giant pulls back from overseas markets.
- Updated
- Nick Lenaghan
- Exclusive
- Australia's China challenge
Meet Taiwan’s ‘matchmaker’ for Australian business
As Taiwan prepares to welcome a new president and bolster economic ties with Australia, the self-ruled island’s envoy issues a warning over Chinese coercion.
- Andrew Tillett
- Opinion
- Critical minerals
Albanese’s troubled critical minerals dream
The Albanese government has high hopes for much more downstream processing of critical minerals. But the numbers aren’t adding up. What can change that?
- Jennifer Hewett
Investors pull money from Wall Street in favour of Asia, Europe
Fund managers are reallocating money away from Wall Street betting that ‘US exceptionalism’ has run its course.
- Ishika Mookerjee, Charlotte Yang and Sagarika Jaisinghani
Backers of takeover target Austal want Hanwha in the race
Austal shareholders say the opening shots in takeover battle for the defence ship builder have fallen well short of the mark, but granting due diligence would be a start.
- Brad Thompson
Chinese investment critical to reach net-zero goals
Clean energy experts warn moves that limit Chinese investment in Australia could undermine the Albanese government’s green energy goals.
- Ronald Mizen, Elouise Fowler, Simon Evans and Ben Potter
Wong warns on foreign interference after Indian spies expelled
Revelations Indian spies were asked to leave Australia in 2020 suggest Western intelligence agencies are unhappy about New Delhi’s espionage tactics.
- Andrew Tillett and Emma Connors
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Chalmers’ recipe for friendly foreign investment ignores the basics
The treasurer has a grand new take on industrial policy, but there’s little evidence of the reforms that international investors seek.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Exclusive
- Foreign relations
‘No concerns’ with South Korean takeover bid for Austal: Marles
Defence Minister Richard Marles has given a fillip to Hanwha’s bid to buy Perth shipbuilder Austal, despite the deal raising security concerns.
- Andrew Tillett and Brad Thompson
April
Labor’s plan to unlock the right foreign investment
While some investors will get a fast track, extra safeguards will be set up for high-risk proposals, like China entities investing in critical infrastructure.
- Phillip Coorey
