Asia

Europe’s Asian peach push

EU promotes high-quality canned peaches with “Peach Flavors Asia” campaign 19 April 2023 | Media OutReach/suppliedHO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM Within the framework of the European-financed campaign “Peach Flavors Asia”, the EU has aimed to […]

Economy

Global interest rates should ease

IMF predicts interest rates likely to return toward pre-pandemic levels once inflation is tamed 12 April 2023 | IMF Blog (Jean-Marc Natal and Philip Barrett) Real interest rates have rapidly increased recently as monetary policy has […]

News

Real agents of foreign interference

Despite the Morrison government’s complete distrust of Australia’s biggest trading partner, it’s not foreign governments who are having a lend of Canberra. Once again foreign entities dominate the list of corporations raking in billions of […]

News

The mutation of greed

According to Oxfam, three giant pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna, are generating $65,000 profit every single minute from their Covid-19 vaccines. Rich nations, like Australia, have hoarded vaccines and refused to allow third world […]

News

Quad, hardly shining democracies

How legitimate are the so called Quad’s implicit claims of moral and political superiority? Three of Australia’s last five PMs (Scott Morrison included) came to power knifing predecessors in backroom secret ballots; one in four […]

Comment

Human rights and wrongs

Why does Australia still sell weapons to human-rights abuser Saudi Arabia? As the kingdom wages war in Yemen, Canberra continues to supply arms, making us complicit in the deaths of innocent civilians. 8 December 2021 […]