Rules-based order: What’s in a name?
United Nations General Assembly hall at the UN Headquarters, New York City (Patrick Gruban/Flickr) Published 30 Jun 2021 06:00 0 Comments
The rules-based order (RBO) concept is a bit like the Australian property market – just when it seems to have peaked, it surges again.
The RBO has endured despite its extremely uninspiring name and the return of “great power competition”. Observers might expect that this competition would come at the expense of rules. But the RBO was invoked again and again in the latest round of US-led summits.
In its communique, leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) reaffirmed their commitment to the RBO and asserted that “China’s stated ambitions and assertive behaviour present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order”. That echoed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s earlier s
How to build a strong Australian economy swap Scott for Jacinda
Independent Australia
28 Jun 2021, 08:52 GMT+10
Australians would ve been much better off if the Morrison Government had responded to the COVID-19 economic crisis like its neighbour across the Tasman, writes Alan Austin.
TREASURER JOSH FRYDENBERG was keen to compare Australia with New Zealand last September when Australia had generated one quarterly growth number better than New Zealand s. We can now assess how all the critical numbers compare over a longer period.
New Zealand well ahead of Australia
New Zealand s annual GDP growth is now 2.4%, ranking 19th in the world and fifth in the OECD. Australia s is a modest 1.1%, ranking 28th in the world and tenth in the OECD.
A mother-of-four has been slammed for asking if all Aboriginals hate white people and saying they should just move on from the past.
Gold Coast woman Melody Radford, who has previously spoken about turning her back on her innocent Christian upbringing to become a pornstar, took to TikTok this week with questions directed towards indigenous Australians.
In the video, Ms Radford said growing up she witnessed Aboriginal people being aggressive to white people and asked when the hostility would end. So I grew up around a lot of you and I saw nothing but hate towards white people, like white people getting bashed and all that sort of stuff, she says.
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