In The Australian today
While the initial shock has eased, the reaction to the devaluation of the yuan highlights just how anxious world markets are about China’s economic prospects.
03 Aug2015
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In The Australian today
After spending $6000 on chartering a corporate aircraft to fly her from Sydney to Nowra, Bronwyn Bishop had no option but to resign. There must still be questions, however, about why it took Tony Abbott so long to act
After spending $6000 on chartering a corporate aircraft to fly her from Sydney to Nowra, Bronwyn Bishop had no option but to resign. There must still be questions, however, about why it took Tony Abbott so long to act
27 Jul2015
Ageing population not draining health budget but reforms needed
Today in The Australian
When Ovid, in the Metamorphoses, made the first recorded use of the term “reformare”, it meant the sudden rejuvenation of an old man — but for one day only.
When Ovid, in the Metamorphoses, made the first recorded use of the term “reformare”, it meant the sudden rejuvenation of an old man — but for one day only.
20 Jul2015
Greece: who’s going to pay to get the country out of trouble?
Today in The Australian
The question is not whether Greece’s debt burden is sustainable; even on its current, highly concessional, terms, it isn’t. Rather, the real question is how the adjustment occurs — and who pays for it.
The question is not whether Greece’s debt burden is sustainable; even on its current, highly concessional, terms, it isn’t. Rather, the real question is how the adjustment occurs — and who pays for it.
18 Jul2015
Europe in a continental drift: Greek crisis exposes flaws
In The Australian today
It isn’t only for Greece that hope has proven the handmaiden to misery, as it always does in the classical tragedies. Rather, after the turmoil of the last month, what little remains of the European project also lies in tatters.
It isn’t only for Greece that hope has proven the handmaiden to misery, as it always does in the classical tragedies. Rather, after the turmoil of the last month, what little remains of the European project also lies in tatters.
11 Jul2015
China’s stock market crash: When the flying panda fell to earth
Today in The Australian
“The Guide says there is an art to flying, or rather a knack,” the galactic hitchhiker Ford Prefect explains in Douglas Adams’s Life, the Universe and Everything: “The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
“The Guide says there is an art to flying, or rather a knack,” the galactic hitchhiker Ford Prefect explains in Douglas Adams’s Life, the Universe and Everything: “The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”