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The global convention of pricing oil in US dollars has shaped geopolitics, exchange rates, and the power of the American economy for more than half a century.
By The Daily World · 12 April 2026
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Australia is one of the world's leading beef exporters, and the complex web of trade rules, biosecurity regimes, and competing suppliers that governs the global meat trade has direct consequences for Australian farmers.
By The Daily World · 10 April 2026
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The ten-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the economic and diplomatic architecture underpinning Australia's most important regional neighbourhood.
By The Daily World · 6 April 2026
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Gradual ocean rise is not a future threat for some communities; it is already reshaping coastlines, flooding homes, and forcing governments to consider relocating entire populations.
By The Daily World · 2 April 2026
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Thousands of small satellites now circle the Earth in low orbit, transforming both how militaries see the battlefield and how forecasters predict your weekend weather.
By The Daily World · 31 March 2026
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A single vote from one of five countries can block any United Nations Security Council resolution, making the veto one of the most powerful and contested tools in global diplomacy.
By The Daily World · 29 March 2026
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Nuclear energy generates a significant share of the world's electricity with almost no direct carbon emissions, yet it remains one of the most contested power sources on the planet.
By The Daily World · 27 March 2026
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Inflation is one of the most reported numbers in economic news and one of the least understood, measuring something more specific than 'things cost more'.
By The Daily World · 21 March 2026
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A stock market index appears daily in the news as a number going up or down, but what it measures, and what it misses, is less well understood.
By The Daily World · 17 March 2026
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Migration is one of the oldest human behaviours and one of the most misunderstood, driven far more by labour demand and family ties than by crisis alone.
By The Daily World · 13 March 2026
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Fresh water is not running out, but it is very badly distributed, and the gap between where people live and where water falls is widening.
By The Daily World · 11 March 2026
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The pandemic exposed how fragile the world's just-in-time logistics networks really were, and countries are still reshaping them today.
By The Daily World · 3 March 2026
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Some of the world's smallest countries own stakes in some of the world's largest companies, because they turned a windfall into a permanent endowment.
By The Daily World · 28 February 2026
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Fish do not respect national borders, which is why managing them requires international cooperation that is notoriously difficult to achieve.
By The Daily World · 26 February 2026
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Three private companies issue judgements that affect how much every government on earth pays to borrow money, yet most people have never heard of them.
By The Daily World · 24 February 2026
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India now has more people than any other country and an economy growing faster than almost any other, yet its path to great-power status is neither straight nor guaranteed.
By The Daily World · 22 February 2026
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For the first time in human history, the number of older people is outpacing the number of children, and the economic consequences are only beginning to show.
By The Daily World · 20 February 2026
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Two ocean temperature patterns on the other side of the world drive Australia's cycles of drought, flood, and fire with remarkable regularity.
By The Daily World · 18 February 2026
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The AUKUS partnership is the most consequential defence commitment Australia has made in generations, yet its details remain largely unknown to most Australians.
By The Daily World · 14 February 2026
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Australia is one of the world's largest LNG exporters, yet most Australians could not explain what LNG is or how it reaches customers across Asia.
By The Daily World · 12 February 2026
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The WTO is not a world government, but the rules it sets touch almost every product you buy.
By The Daily World · 10 February 2026
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Central banks raising rates in Washington and Frankfurt can make groceries more expensive in Australia, through a chain of effects that is less obvious than it first appears.
By The Daily World · 2 February 2026
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Getting a vaccine from a laboratory to an arm on the other side of the world involves a chain of manufacturing, cold storage, and logistics that most people never see.
By The Daily World · 29 January 2026
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No other country shapes Australia's economic fortunes as directly as China, and understanding why reveals how exposed the Australian economy really is.
By The Daily World · 19 January 2026