Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced his upcoming visit to China for the Victory Day Parade during a powerful speech in Bratislava commemorating the Slovak National Uprising.
The International Court of Justice handed down a significant climate action advisory opinion at the behest of the UN last month. Rex Patrick looks at Australia’s response.
So far, Australia’s approach to the ICJ’s climate advisory has been to try having its carbon cake and eating it too.
For 80 years the world has sympathised with and supported Israel through the prism of the indescribably brutal Holocaust.
Never again – so the world pledged
Defence Minister Richard Marles said in June that if war broke out between the US and China, Australia would inevitably be involved.
Alastair Crooke’s remarkable analysis of Trump in the context of myth as geopolitics has left us with much to ponder. There’s no escape from Trump’s “extraordinary ability to dominate the discourse”, globally, as well as his capacity for “bending people to his will” – and thus wreak havoc on the geopolitical chessboard.
The latest rate cut from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has stimulated the housing market, with Cotality reporting the strongest national final auction clearance rate since February 2024. Across the combined capital cities, 70.0% of homes taken to auction sold. This was the highest clearance rate since the week ending 11th February 2024 (70.3%).
International Reading: Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of America’s taxpayers, new study finds – CBS News Trump Seems Pretty Socialist These Days – Bloomberg Trump’s Appointees Could Rule the Fed for Decades – NY Times It turns out Gen Z is not ‘thriving’ the way they thought they would be: ‘American
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Asian share markets are finishing the trading week in a mixed mood with US and European stock futures not moving much as they anticipate a long weekend for the former and the end of week/month double witching session. The USD is steady against most of the majors but losing ground against the commodity currencies with
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It's the most expensive single defense project in Europe, with a projected cost of at least €100 billion ($116.6 billion). From 2040, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) aims to combine a new European fighter jet with fleets of drones controlled via a European defense cloud.
The latest official labour force survey showed that New Zealand’s unemployment rate lifted to 5.2% in Q2 2025, the highest rate since Q4 2016. New Zealand’s underutilisation rate, which combines unemployment and underemployment, also surged, indicating a significant surplus capacity in the labour market. On Thursday, Statistics New Zealand released its filled jobs survey, which
The Market Ear with more. Finally? Gold flirting with a break out above the huge triangle like formation. Complex psychology has developed inside this consolidation… Source: LSEG Workspace Frustration Gold net non commercials front ran a move lower, but gold has moved higher. Plenty of room to increase the long… Source: LSEG Workspace Computers –
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