Victoria’s decision to sign up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative opens it up to the same sort of risks as other signatories.
- Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
The Australian government has powers it could use to patch the problems around temporary labour provisions in the China-Australia trade agreement.
Discussions of tax usually focus on tax rates, not on tax bases. But both offer possibilities to increase the total tax take.
The WTO Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Bali almost failed. By negotiating for one day beyond the scheduled conference time, 159 exhausted nations finally concluded an agreement. What’s at stake are…
Recent complaints to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by the US, EU and Japanese governments against China have highlighted once again the difficulties facing the largest trading partners in the global…
There are many features of the design of the Gillard government’s controversial and complex carbon legislation that can be questioned. For example, Australia’s unilateral action; the two-phase carbon tax…
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