Not all tax havens come with fancy resorts and sun-drenched beaches.
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The G-7 wants to set a minimum global tax rate, which would make it harder for countries to act as tax havens.
A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines supplied by COVAX, the vaccine-sharing programme, arriving in Timor Leste.
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World leaders have called for an end to the pandemic – but the numbers don’t add up.
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China’s aggressive stands and the sharp deterioration of the bilateral relationship are flowing through strongly to produce record negativity by Australians towards our biggest trading partner.
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Upwards of 60% of the world needs to be vaccinated to suppress COVID-19 – even with an extra billion doses, that target looks very far away.
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Ransomware has gone professional, with criminal consultants, affiliates and brokers – arresting them all will be difficult.
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The idea of friendship means very different things in Chinese and Euro-American traditions.
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If the G7 is serious about stopping global warming, it could start by acknowledging who and what is causing it.
the Biloela Tamil family, G7 and the upcoming parliamentary fortnight
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meeting in 2011, during the Obama presidency.
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The Biden-Putin summit will be symbolic, rather than substantive - but there could be grounds for cautious optimism.
Boris Johnson is attempting to move from zero to hero on climate change.
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G7’s Build Back Better World initiative is designed to finance climate infrastructure projects in developing countries.
Two members of the G-7 exchange an elbow bump.
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The G-7 nations, which include the US and UK, form the foundation of the modern global economy.
Boris Johnson and Joe Biden signed a New Atlantic Charter, an echo of the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting 80 years earlier.
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Eighty years after Churchill and Roosevelt established the Atlantic Charter, Biden and Johnson have pressed the ‘reset’ button.
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Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon.
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Renewables form an ever-greater share of the electricity mix. But elsewhere in the energy sector – in transport, industry and buildings – emissions reduction is very slow.
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Though the British prime minister has called on countries to share more doses internationally, the UK may continue to prioritise its domestic rollout.
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Scott Morrison, who was embraced as a bro by Donald Trump, now seeks to become one of Joe Biden’s besties, writes Michelle Grattan
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Rhetoric is hardening, but government policies still honour the special relationship with fossil fuels.
Flat coast, big summit.
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After the acrimony of the Trump years, we can expect a very different feel to the latest G7 summit.
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The UK will host the first G7 summit since 2019. Can they tackle global challenges?
G7 finance ministers at London’s Lancaster House on Saturday June 5.
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To weigh the prospects of a transformation, it pays to look at the markets.