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Try as it might, Qantas can’t seem to avoid annoying members of federal parliament.

The liquidators for a commercial subleasing company say it may have been insolvent for at least the last 10 months of the former premier’s tenure.

Farmers have invited crossbench MPs to join the campaign against Santos’s proposed coal seam gas development on the Liverpool plains

When the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, it will regain the freedom to negotiate its own trade deals, a freedom it surrendered to the EU when it joined the bloc in 1973. Trade deals normally center on arrangements for the trade in goods and services, and have as their goal the reduction, or elimination, of government-imposed barriers to the free flow of trade between the negotiating nations.

A shortage of Australian coal is getting worse with Newcastle export volumes slumping by close to 30pc in January, exacerbating the decade-low volumes in 2022.

Developed countries should travel to the World Trade Organization'sministerial meeting in Cancun with a strategic plan to lowersubsidies and tariffs in order to finish the Doha round on time.Without real change, much of the developing world will continue tobe frozen out of the West's markets and be consigned to furtherdecades of poverty.

Trading Places: Rinehart makes play for Warrego Energy, Whitehaven gets new substantial shareholder

Australian shares eased as protests in China against COVID-19 restrictions prompted investor caution, sending oil prices to their lowest in nearly a year.

At the September 10-14 World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun,U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick should work to ensurethat the final version of the agreed framework is as close to hisoriginal July 2002 proposal as possible and push WTO members,particularly the European Union, to reduce subsidies and tariffsand improve market access. In short, he should pressure Europe tooffer real agricultural reform.

Prices of exported coal have skyrocketed to records and futures contracts suggest they’ll remain at historic highs for years to come.