Australia and France have been quietly negotiating a defence treaty that will affect New Caledonia and French Polynesia. But the people that live there seem to have been lost in the negotiations, writes Nic Maclellan, journalist and researcher on Pacific affairs.
A free trade agreement with China is unlikely to yield significant economic benefits, and we'd be better off simply liberalising our economy.
From India to Canada, China to Russia, Crikey intern Andrey Rodionov scour's the world's media for their take on Brisbane's G20.
The government was right to push for growth at the G20 summit but the minds of international leaders are no longer focused on the forum, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.
While China persists with its counterproductive carrot-and-stick approach to trade, Australia should look to more manageable economic relationships in south-east Asia.
It is clearer than ever that Australia must act on climate change -- or risk being left behind. Climate Institute deputy CEO Erwin Jackson explains.
The climate action agreement between China and the US removes the assumption on which the Coalition's entire contradictory approach to climate change is based.
Indian company Adani is the last man standing in the Galilee Basin -- and it looks like approval for a giant mine there is all but assured.
The Australian media has raved about the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Tony Abbott, but Russian media was more interested in Putin's chivalry, writes Crikey intern Andrey Rodionov.
If the Abbott government manages to secure a free trade agreement with China, it will be quite the diplomatic victory, writes The Mandarin journalist David Donaldson.
