Every country has a national champion, a mighty company that symbolises its prestige on the global stage.
On the face of it, Australia's international tertiary education sector is booming. Education recently surpassed tourism to become the third largest export after steel and coal, creating about $12.5 billion in income.
Barely a week goes by without Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) figuring prominently in the Australian business and financial news.
Australia's new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is happy to consider a rough model along such lines. His target year for establishing it is 2020. On June 4, a keen Rudd sketched a few ideas for the Asia Society Australasia Centre in Sydney.
If we are entering an era in which natural resources will be worth seizing or monopolising, then the sea will [...]
Sovereign wealth fund money, which exceeds $7.8 trillion, are emerging as one of the most powerful clandestine forces shaping equity [...]
It is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern history - the world population doubled in 50 years, but the food supply kept pace.