What are the big opportunities in this brave new world of freer trade? China is the big story – it’s got a huge population and burgeoning middle class that will spend money on premium, ‘clean and green’ food. I don’t want to downplay Japan – it’s a big market for Australian agricultural produce. It may, … Read more
Just over an hour’s drive east of Melbourne, a cutting-edge hydroponic facility of KAITEKI Fresh Australia, an offshoot of Mitsubishi Plastics Inc. is producing pesticide-free spinach, rocket and kale. It’s also developing technology that could come to play a vital role in managing one of this sunburnt country’s most overtaxed resources. Opened in July in … Read more
As the city of Geelong builds a global reputation for carbon fibre technologies, Australian company Carbon Revolution is tackling the problem of how to turn a potentially disruptive technology into a commercial product. This year it began supplying the world’s first mass-produced carbon fibre wheel to the Ford motor company. Geelong-based Carbon Revolution had its … Read more
While now a proud resident of Australia, D.D. Saxena was long a peripatetic global citizen. Born in India, he attended high school in the US, returned to his birthplace to study for a Bachelor of Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India’s equivalent to MIT) then rose through the ranks at multinationals such … Read more
Our lack of faith in politics is spinning out of control… With pundits widely declaring Tony Abbott’s leadership terminal, it’s perhaps time Australian voters considered their role in a political system that has quickly descended into what the PM memorably described as Game of Thrones-style chaos. Over the last decade or so, Aussies have fallen in and … Read more
I don’t like to make a big deal about it but I am periodically called up to serve my country. And by ‘serve my country’ I mean sit in my suburban, air-conditioned office and get paid good coin to churn out copy on Aussie success stories for Austrade’s Australia Unlimited (www.australiaunlimited.com). In the lead up … Read more