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AgTech has the potential to both benefit Australia’s agricultural sector and create direct economic benefits through commercialisation of new technology. Examining St Louis, Missouri — a mid-west city with a strong specialisation in...
A keynote address by Peter Varghese AO delivered at the Indo-Pacific Strategic Futures: Dialogue and Simulation dinner at PwC Sydney on 12 August 2019
The Australian Research Council's bionic eye initiative, funded from 2010-2014, offers a productive way to assess the structural and cultural barriers to successful innovation in Australia: it is a lesson in how not...
What Trump did late last week was unimaginable – until he acted out his unprecedented, fantastical political ploy: pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu to deny entry into Israel of two Democratic Members of Congress...
America’s defence strategy in the Indo-Pacific is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis. Faced with an ever more capable and assertive China, the US military urgently needs to refocus on the requirements...
The Social Security program has been one of the largest sources of mandatory spending in the US Federal Budget since the 1960s. However, its reserves are projected to run out by 2035 due...
Global financial markets have been unsettled by claims China has devalued its currency against the US dollar, with the US Treasury responding by declaring China a ‘currency manipulator'.
In the United States and Australia, the possession, distribution and use of illicit drugs is on the rise, despite prosecution. One solution is drug decriminalisation.
Enhancing the long-term economic opportunities for the Indo-Pacific region to ensure it remains safe and prosperous was at the core of the agenda for the annual Australia-US foreign and defence ministerial meeting (AUSMIN)...
It was hard enough to go to sleep — safely — on Saturday night here in the US following the day-long, non-stop coverage of the gun massacre in El Paso, Texas where 20...
The Chinese Communist Party is facing diabolic dilemmas and problems of its own making.
The US may be on the precipice of a military confrontation with Iran, but the economic war is nothing new.
US President Donald Trump's attacks on Democrat Elijah Cummings over the weekend — deriding the black congressman's district as "a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" — represent another juvenile attempt to humiliate...
It turned out that Mueller’s testimony was more sophistic than animating. But it did again highlight damning things about the president’s behaviour.
Floating rates and free markets have achieved more than the IMF and the World Bank ever have.
Who were the winners and losers, and what did we learn from former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony on Capitol Hill? Senior Fellow Bruce Wolpe gives his key takeaways.
Automation will increase demand for soft skills in the workforce
This highly charged day could either be explosive or anticlimactic in the extreme.
The Australian Research Council’s research in Bionic Vision Science and Technology initiative — the so-called bionic eye initiative — offers a productive way to explore the barriers to successful innovation in Australia. It...
As artificial intelligence technologies improve, technology will become even more pervasive in the workplace, requiring workers with technology-relevant skills.
