trade Australia fills up at the Singapore servo Australia has been caught nearly out of fuel twice in a decade. A quiet trade deal amendment with Singapore is the government's answer — but is it a strategy or just a queue-jump?
trade Indonesia hasn’t collapsed. Yet. Indonesia's rupiah is weaker than during the crisis that toppled Suharto — and more than half the damage is self-inflicted.
trade The rare-earth mirage: why Australia's mineral riches mean nothing without processing Australia has the geology. China has the industry. The gap between them is where Australia's critical minerals strategy is currently living.
trade US war machine leaves Australia in the dust. Literally. A foreign defence department just put $560 million into an Australian mine. Canberra called it a vote of confidence. That depends on who you think it's confidence in.
trade Wine cycle. Who will survive the hardest race in decades? Global wine demand has fallen by a third in under a decade — and Australian exporters are only now reckoning with what that means for who survives.
trade Twenty years of Chinese state planning have upended the global car industry China decided two decades ago it couldn't win the old car race — so it changed the game entirely. Now the West is scrambling to respond.
