The Australian government has set out an ambitious plan to attract overseas investors with a proven track record whilst at the same time toughening up safeguards for investment seen as higher-risk. Treasury Minister Jim Chalmers says the moves will get capital flowing more quickly into the country whilst concentrating monitoring and enforcement effort on investments that have the potential to threaten the national interest.

An audio summary of this article is available in the player below. Scroll to keep reading. On April 29, 2024, Chairman John Moolenaar, the new Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, unveiled his priorities. In a new video, as well as an Op-ed, Moolenaar previewed the Committee's top priorities under his leadership, which includes safeguarding Taiwan, stopping the fentanyl trade, protecting American technology and supply chain, and preventing CCP proxies from harassing people on U.soil.

"Today, Africa has $640 billion in outstanding debt and pays nearly $70 billion in interest every year. It would only be fair for us to have a financing mechanism that treats us on an equal footing". Kenyan President William Ruto's call at the African Union's 5th biannual coordination meeting in Nairobi in July 2023, was unequivocal: the global financial architecture must be reformed so that Africa is no longer the world's poor relation.