Excellent piece by Emma Connors in Financial Review 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 . CPD. Jim Chalmers MP
Anthony Albanese Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺
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afr.com/world/asia/she… 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 ⁦Sri Mulyani⁩

“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.” ⁦Emma Connors⁩ afr.com/world/asia/why…

Waiting for Prabowo. Exit polls and early count suggest he's got the majority he needs to become Indonesia's next President. Buckle up

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 afr.com/politics/feder….

“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’.” onenews.ph/articles/dinur…

Clive Palmer’s superyacht runs aground.

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Absolutely. Good to have something to smile about in a grim week.

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”

Prabowo’s “plan” bears a striking resemblance to what happened in East Timor, and we know how that went…

Why ‘de-risking’ from China is the new buzzword afr.com/world/asia/why…

Twenty-five years since the greatest The Jakarta Post headline ever?

Time to catch up ...afr.com/world/asia/wha…

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.

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 Edmund Tadros afr.com/companies/prof…

#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: theaustralian.com.au/commentary/his…

Great piece by Richard McGregor on Japan’s departing ambassador in today’s AFR. afr.com/policy/foreign…

Jakarta looks for bigger stake in Freeport joint venture afr.com/world/asia/jak… @Jokowi Bahlil Lahadalia Erick Thohir Emma Connors Fahmy Radhi Kementerian Investasi - BKPM Kementerian BUMN Freeport Indonesia Freeport-McMoRan #Indonesia

Long before moving fast and breaking things there was farting in church @lowyinstitute lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Terrific piece by Hans van Leeuwen. Must've had a notebook in that suit afr.com/world/europe/w…