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The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has signed up for interagency collaboration with its ASEAN counterpart the Philippines.

The federal government has announced a new seasonal agriculture worker visa that will be extended to all 10 ASEAN countries.

The government has been widely criticised for failing to rollout the COVID-19 vaccine as quickly as it had planned, and has reversed its initial target.

How could government procurement be made easier? Pia Andrews shares some insights on how procurement reform in itself can be something of a red herring unless it occurs within a broader program of reform.

Productivity Commission chairman Peter Harris chose an address to the European Australian Business Council to explain the independent advisory body’s views on Australia’s place in the global economy.

Trump and Brexit are isolated bumps on the road to full globalisation, if optimists in the business community are to be believed. But can liberalisation continue as normal in the face of voter backlash?

Australia has defended its regulatory sovereignty, and its tobacco control laws, in its first investor-state dispute settlement case. But more are likely, and there’s genuine concern about how the system operates.

The US is pushing for increased “regulatory coherence” between the parties to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with implications for domestic regulators. But what is regulatory coherence?

ISDS provisions in free trade agreements have come under fire for allowing governments to be sued over social policy. So why do trade negotiators like them? Penny Wong thinks we need an international agreement.

Critics of recent free trade agreements are misguided, argues DFAT secretary Peter Varghese.

EXCLUSIVE: The China FTA only achieved lift-off under the Abbott government’s more “defensive” approach in talks, a former Chinese ambassador reveals to The Mandarin.