Emma Connors
@EmmaMConnors
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Just dropped: June’s Briefing MONTHLY Dating games. Military build-ups. K-Pop shoutouts. China trade. Russia (again). All the latest in Asia–Australia relations. Edited by @EmmaMConnors | Animation: @roccofazzari Read now: https://t.co/gLVVHEk4h0
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Sometimes you come away from a conversation and think 'wow, things really have changed'.
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The “happy accidents” that led to so many families having three or more children are a lot less likely to happen now.
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NYT columnist Bret Stephens doesn't do social media so I'll help him out ...
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The international community thinks Israel is fighting a war of choice. Israel doesn’t see it that way, says US writer and author Bret Stephens.
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Excellent piece by @EmmaMConnors in @FinancialReview on the government’s new $2 billion investment fund to promote energy transition in se Asia. I suggest it should focus on building renewables in #indonesia. @CentrePolicyDev. @JEChalmers
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The Albanese government has promised $2 billion to help mitigate perceived and actual risk across South-east Asia. But that’s not a straightforward task.
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https://t.co/6LfWzArubY Prabowo vowed to continue Jokowi's policies and Jokowi's implicit support was a big factor in last week's election. But that continuity doesn't look like it will extend to long serving and highly respected finance minister @SriMulyaan
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Sri Mulyani Indrawati steadied the ship at critical moments for Indonesia, but the Prabowo camp says her approach to development differs from the new government’s.
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“Voters believe he is more gemoy and less fiery than as a younger man. In Indonesia’s elite circles, though, his temperament remains a talking point.” @EmmaMConnors
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The former military commander is an ultranationalist who has waited decades to lead Indonesia. He’s also strategic, smart and volatile.
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Waiting for Prabowo. Exit polls and early count suggest he's got the majority he needs to become Indonesia's next President. Buckle up
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Indian students from certain degrees will be allowed stay for more time than students from other countries as the existing 🇦🇺🇮🇳 FTA (concluded under the Morrison govt) takes precedence over Albanese govt’s new migration reforms https://t.co/Gnn7JlRnhi.
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“I am saying this only now that chief of staff General Brawner and I had a chat during a recent executive session. He told me on one occasion, Huang confronted him and even aggressively pointed at him while saying, ‘Don’t provoke us’.”
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Clive Palmer’s superyacht runs aground. https://t.co/uvNoE9bFjj
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The 56-metre vessel, named Australia, has gained attention for its luxurious features but on Monday night the focus was on it for another reason.
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Absolutely. Good to have something to smile about in a grim week.
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Anies Baswedan, who is a serious contender to be Indonesia's next president, implies he would back Ukraine: “when one country invades another country, and the invader is your friend, should you be silent? No! You tell them it’s wrong... territorial sovereignty is a key principle”
Indonesian presidential hopeful Anies Baswedan criticises government for 'transactional' foreign policy, pledges a values-based approach if elected
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Prabowo’s “plan” bears a striking resemblance to what happened in East Timor, and we know how that went…
Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s defence minister, scoffed at Indonesian counterpart Prabowo’s proposed peace plan: “I will try to be polite… It sounds like a Russian plan.”
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Why ‘de-risking’ from China is the new buzzword
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It’s the new way of talking about relations with China, coined as an alternative to decoupling from the world’s second-largest economy. But Beijing says the language is loaded.
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If I was Meghan and Harry I would just move to Australia. We are too lazy to chase them relentlessly and the government will just deport foreign paparazzi.
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Apple, Google & Microsoft told Senate Economics committee in April 2015 they didn't do aggressive tax structures in Australia. A month later PwC came calling with a terrific idea. with @edmundtadros
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Apple, Google and Microsoft believed to be among 23 US tech firms that PwC Australia approached with a tax avoidance workaround hours after treasurer Joe Hockey announced a new law in 2015.
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#NotAnEconomistBut Jake Sullivan’s Brookings speech may be the most consequential yet out of Biden’s administration. In essence, it takes a long-term peer competitor, China, to revive the dead hand of the state:
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