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The Responsibility to Ratify: Why the TPP is Crucial to Australia's Future

The Responsibility to Ratify: Why the TPP is Crucial to Australia's Future

After years of intense negotiations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) talks finally concluded last October. Following a month of legal and language-related touch ups, the full and official text of the agreement was published in November of last year, marking the beginning of a difficult process of ratification in all

AusAID: why Australia and the world’s poorest need it

AusAID: why Australia and the world’s poorest need it

On September 18 Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the government’s decision to effectively abolish AusAID by integrating it into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). He cited ‘confused responsibilities, duplication and waste’ as reasons for the merger, and suggested that now the ‘aid and diplomatic arms of

The economics behind the asylum seeker policy

The economics behind the asylum seeker policy

This article is one of two Q&A specials informing the reader on a topic of economic importance to Australia that was discussed by the panel on the night. Background On the 19th of July this year, Kevin Rudd introduced the PNG solution whereby any asylum seeker arriving by boat