Graincorp and ADM bid – understanding a coalition Govt
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Libs vs Nats: GrainCorp stoush shows cracks run deep in the Coalition Socrates once observed that no-one could be a statesman if they were entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. Once again wheat – or, more precisely, grain handling and the sale of GrainCorp – is drawing attention...
Copyright – or Copywrong ?
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Copyrights and copywrongs: reforming educational film rights By Ruari Elkington, Queensland University of Technology At the end of November, after 18 months of deliberations, the Australian Law Reform Commission will hand down its report on the appropriateness of existing copyright laws in the new digital environment. Among the questions...
Forget Australia’s mining boom; try its dining boom instead.
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The country is the world’s fourth-largest exporter of dairy products. Since Warrnambool Cheese and Butter was first approached by a bidder in September it has attracted two other suitors. WCB’s shares have doubled, and trading activity has risen 15-fold. The group now trades on 60 times trailing earnings, making it the...
U.S. Exports Surge as China Supports Agricultural Prices
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As Chinese officials expanded support for agriculture, they began to rely on raising price supports to maintain net returns to farmers. China became the largest market for U.S. agricultural exports as its rising prices eroded the relative competitiveness of Chinese commodities. Chinese officials have signaled intentions to keep increasing...
Developing Asia’s Capital Markets Conference – Grand Hyatt Hong Kong 20-21 Nov 2013
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Courtesy of AustCham Hong Kong I am attending ASIFMA’s Annual Conference with the theme for this first-of-a-kind, two-day event ‘Developing Asia’s Capital Markets’. The conference is an industry-wide occasion, providing a unique opportunity for global and regional policy makers, high-level regulators and industry representatives from both sell-side and buy-side...
“Chinese Farmers should participate equally and enjoy the fruits of modernisation,”
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“Farmers should participate equally and enjoy the fruits of modernisation,” communiqué from the third plenum of the 18th Central Committee That was all the Chinese Government has to say about the most important challenge facing the economy. John Clemmow at Barclays Research states that he for one is not...
Deloitte give Australian agribusiness and wealth management the thumbs up – and ICT is fighting !
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Deloitte Australia have released their Positioning for Prosperity report this week and Deloitte identifies five “super-growth industry sectors” that they forecast will collectively contribute an additional $250 billion to the Australian economy over the next 20 years. These five industries would form the backbone of a powerful new diversified...
Australia’s new links to China
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Middle power meets Middle Kingdom: Abbott looks to China Tony Abbott’s initial forays into foreign relations are exceeding expectations. True, the bar was set pretty low for many critics, but the new team is clearly intent on sending positive signals about the importance of Asia in particular. The big...
Hockey should put Islamic finance on his Inquiry’s agenda
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A topic which warrants inclusion in Joe Hockey’s planned Financial System Inquiry — but probably won’t make it in — is the regulatory and institutional impediments to Islamic finance. The 2% of the Australian population who want these Sharia-compliant products face significant problems in accessing them. The following piece...
Free Range debate
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Free range ‘debate’ puts the egg before the chicken Today’s announcement that Woolworths will phase out the selling of cage eggs seems like pretty good news. But let’s not get carried away. The “free range” label on a carton of eggs can mean densities of anywhere up to 20,000...