29 January 2014 Rob Harris Weekly Times Now VICTORIAN winemaker Eliza Brown will form part of Barnaby Joyce’s new Agricultural Industry Advisory Council. The chief executive officer of All Saints Estate and
30 January 2014 Alan Kohler The Drum There’s every indication we are approaching a national emergency when it comes to infrastructure, writes Alan Kohler. One of Australia’s many political ironies is that
30 January 2014 Adam Creighton The Australian OTHER states should try to emulate Western Australia, the nation’s most free state and most likely to generate prosperity, says an unprecedented analysis that ranks
28 January 2014 Matthew Circosta Moody’s Analytics The success of Japan’s new economic zones hinges on the implementation of much-needed reforms in healthcare, agriculture, and the labour market. Building restrictions have been
Northern development MUST include appropriate infrastructure projects. 28 January 2014 Warwick Long ABC Rural Canada is forecasting a much smaller wheat crop next season because it can’t move last season’s harvest. A
27 January 2014 Office of Senator Ian Macdonald The urgent need for the real development of Northern Australia has been highlighted by the recently released employment figures according to North Queensland based
18 August 2013 Sinclair Davidson, Professor of Institutional Economics at RMIT University The Conversation In the early noughties former Labor leader Kim Beazley suggested that he’d like to see the unemployment rate
9 January 2014 James R. Carroll Courier Journal A new special economic development zone for eight high-poverty counties in southeastern Kentucky announced by President Barack Obama on Thursday can be a key
28 January 2014 Kerriann Lock As chair of the Joint Select Committee on Northern Australia, Warren Entsch will be a significant figure in the development of policies concerning the region over the
23 January 2014 Olivia Enos The Foundry Asia is home to some of the economically freest and least free nations in the world, according to the recently released Index of Economic Freedom.
23 January 2014 ABC News Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying Australia will use its G20 presidency to promote free trade. Courtesy of
23 January 2014 Dennis Shanahan The Australian The Prime Minister will use his presidency of the G20 to promote global growth through national co-operation and a central encouragement for the private sector