Business
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Voices from an age of uncertain work – Americans miss stability and a shared sense of purpose in their jobs
Unemployment in the U.S. hovers near a 50-year low, and employers describe growing shortages of workers in a wide array…
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Will ships without sailors be the future of trade?
The molluscs had been caught in Essex and transported to Belgium on a 12m (39ft) aluminium-hulled vessel, which traversed the…
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China’s Growth Slides to Weakest Pace in Almost Three Decades
Gross domestic product rose 6.2.% in the April-June period from a year earlier, below the 6.4% expansion in the first…
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A $50b lost opportunity: Why businesses are investing less in the economy
The distinction sounds academic, but it matters for how governments respond to a problem. Clancy Yeates Brisbane Times Dealing with…
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Why BHP’s long-term plan to pave way for another century of mining is a game changer
The mining giant’s Pilbara Expansion Strategic Proposal covers the impacts of its future iron ore operations, with the aim of…
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Federal Treasury slams PR firm for human rights breach
A former star client is the government of Nauru, not exactly a favourite of human rights groups. In fact Mercer’s…
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Indonesia has sunk 516 vessels since 2014 for fishing illegally
Jakarta (ANTARA) – Since 2014, the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry has sunk 516 vessels belonging to countries in its…
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How Britain can help you get away with stealing millions: a five-step guide
Kleptocrats, fraudsters and crooks steal hundreds of billions of pounds, dollars and euros from the rest of us every year,…
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China stresses US must remove all tariffs for trade deal
China continues to stress that the US must remove all the tariffs placed on Chinese goods as a condition for…
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China swiftly stripping Philippines’ EEZ of marine resources
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Hot on the heels of an announcement by the Duterte Administration acquiescing to Communist China’s encroachment…
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Melissa Price approved uranium mine knowing it could lead to extinction of 12 species
The former environment minister Melissa Price acknowledged that approval of a uranium mine in Western Australia could lead to the…
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Lagarde to inherit an ailing eurozone and an unhappy Trump
That signals a continuity of European monetary policy that won’t please Donald Trump. Stephen Bartholomeusz Brisbane Times Lagarde was somewhat…
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Putin hails ‘strategic Russian-Turkish cooperation’
Speaking at a ceremony to receive the letter of credentials from new Turkish Ambassador to Russia Mehmet Samsar, Putin said…
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‘Action now’: the farmers standing up against ‘wilful ignorance’ on climate
The last election may have left the impression with voters that farmers and rural people in general do not accept…
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Open letter to the University of Melbourne: Divest from the detention industry
Dear Prof Maskell, Following the leadership of RISE: Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees, we, the undersigned academics and professional staff, write…
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EU’s Mercosur deal ‘very disappointing for Irish beef sector’ – Creed
Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has refused to rule out Ireland voting against the new EU-Mercosur trade deal at the…
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