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A beef deal too far?

25 July 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

By Peter Brown The first sitting week of Australia’s new Parliament should have been an opportunity to reset national priorities – health, housing, cost of living, climate resilience. Instead, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finds himself […]

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The Price of Power: Trump, Tariffs, and the Future of Global Trade (Part 2)

14 July 2025 AIMN Editorial 8

By Peter Brown Continued from Part 1 How Not Fighting Back Could Outsmart Trump’s Trade War President Trump’s bold threat to impose 50% tariffs on imported goods has reignited global anxiety about a return […]

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The Price of Power: Trump, Tariffs, and the Future of Global Trade (Part 1)

13 July 2025 AIMN Editorial 6

By Peter Brown President Trump has never been shy about wielding tariffs like a political weapon. In recent weeks, he’s threatened to impose 50% tariffs on various nations over everything from trade imbalances to […]

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The Art of Not Having a Deal

10 May 2025 Roswell 2

In a dazzling display of diplomatic fanfare, President Trump unveiled what he convinced himself – and his administration – to believe was a “historic, tremendous, and frankly unbelievable” trade deal with the United Kingdom, the […]

I won’t be buying a Rolls Royce

7 April 2025 Michael Taylor 33

To provide a balanced perspective following yesterday’s article, The five trillion dollar pie in the sky, I decided it would be wise to examine the other side of the story and determine if Trump genuinely […]

Closed for Business: The Oddities of Trump’s Tariffs

4 April 2025 Dr Binoy Kampmark 8

Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion. It also had a dreamy, aspirational hope: that factories would spring up from rust belt […]

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How Australian companies can prepare for US tariffs

6 March 2025 AIMN Editorial 1

UNSW Sydney Media Release Several short-term strategies, including flexible contracting, diversification, and nearshoring, can help the Australian economy mitigate the risks and costs of US tariffs. Australia exported 223,000 tonnes of steel and 83,000 tonnes […]

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Trump’s America: It could get worse

9 February 2025 Michael Taylor 13

Editorial As the outside world gazes into the fishbowl that is the U.S.A. under the autocracy of Donald Trump’s second presidency, those of us who believe in democracy do so with a high degree of […]

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