Opinion
The spectre of an international nuclear waste dump in Australia hangs over AUKUS and what this secretive agreement commits Australia to. Does it oblige us simply to dispose of spent nuclear reactors from our submarines if and when we get them? Or is there a hidden agenda whereby we also take the expired nuclear reactors […]
If investors are interested in the Indian economy, then they should pay attention to the Betashares India Quality ETF (ASX: IIND). It’s an ASX exchange-traded fund (ETF) that gives exposure to the Indian share market. India is now the most populated country in the world with more than 1.4 billion people. Of course, this means the country also has a very […]
Late last year, the Reserve Bank gave 1,000 Australians diaries and asked them to record every payment they made over the course of a week. Of the 13,000 payments, only 17 were with cheques. It’s been an astounding collapse. Back in 1980 at the start of the credit card era, 85 per cent of non-cash payments were made with […]
On Saturday, when the Archbishop of Canterbury conducts the coronation of Charles III at Westminster Abbey, he will not just be crowning the King of England, but the King of Australia as well. For Australians, the notion that we now have a King sits oddly. We were accustomed to the idea of Elizabeth II as Queen of […]
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to India this week, along with his trade and resource ministers and some of the country’s most high-profile chief executives, is a serious show of intent – and it follows a stream of similar recent trips by other cabinet ministers and university leaders. They are motivated by an increasingly important bilateral […]
By Peter Milne Santos’ flagship Barossa gas project north of Darwin has hit another serious snag after a regulator intervened to stop construction of an offshore pipeline until concerns there could be Indigenous heritage sites along the route are addressed. Traditional owner Therese Wokay Bourke welcomed the intervention of offshore environment regulator NOPSEMA just weeks […]
