Tyranna Resources Ltd (ASX:TYX) has completed drilling at the Greenwood Gold/Campfire Bore prospects in the Gawler area of South Australia, a highly prospective gold region. The area being explored is close to the Jumbuck Gold Project with similar style mineralisation to that being mined at the 6.3 million ounce Tropicana gold project. Tyranna is manager of the Western Gawler Craton Joint Venture which includes WPG Resources Ltd (ASX:WPG) who owns 23% alongside Tyranna's 77%. READ: WPG Resources to grow gold resources with JV partner Five holes were drilled for a combined total of 780 metres. Updating of resource model The drilling was aimed at gaining accurate structural information and geotechnical data in the zone below 100 metres to update the current resource model. The diamond core is still being processed, sampled and assayed. Once all data has been received the next step is to review and update the resource block models. Data to feed into scoping study Once this has been done, a scoping study will be conducted to assess the economic viability of open cut mining on the Jumbuck deposits. It is expected that a resource update will be completed during the June 2018 quarter and the scoping study during the September 2018 quarter.
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Tyranna Resources completes drilling program at Gawler Craton as it prepares for scoping study
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Significance Of Vietnamese PM’s Visit To Australia And New Zealand – Analysis
Of the 10-member ASEAN bloc, Vietnam has emerged as the main pivot in the organisation’s foreign diplomacy. Fit now to be compared as a middle power, Vietnam’s emergence as a fast growing economy and its diplomatic outreach in tune with the prevailing geopolitical setting is relevant to prevailing geopolitical settings. After burying the bitter past, its relations with the United States has become robust. Its relations with India with civilizational links have already reached escalating heights.
Vietnam has found great sense of commonality with Japan. Changing geopolitical situations in the Indo-Pacific has drawn Vietnam, India and Japan closer to work together for peace and stability in the region. The unilateral approach on certain Asian power on some regional issues of critical importance is worrying for other stakeholders, which is why Vietnam, Japan and India view the changing situation in the same prism.
Against this background, the significance of the visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to New Zealand and Australia needs to be understood. Besides strong ties at bilateral levels between these countries with each other, there are other regional and global issues which compel them to work from a common platform. India-Japan relations are no less significant than India-Australia relations. Similarly, Vietnam-Australia relations are no less significant than Japan-Australia’s relations. The United States provides the common thread to this triangular relationship. Vietnam is equally too important to be left out from this informal grouping. It is in this perspective Prime Minister Phuc’s visit to the two Oceania nations assumes significance.
*Phuc in New Zealand*
In the sequence of visit, Phuc first travelled to New Zealand from 11 to 13 March. This paved the way to create a driving force for the enhancement of the countries’ comprehensive partnership and the expansion of cooperation in the future. As observed by Vietnamese Ambassador to New Zealand Nguyen Viet Dung, Phuc’s visit was meant to affirm Vietnam’s consistent foreign policy of independence, autonomy and multilateralisation of foreign policy, including those with New Zealand. It was also an occasion for the two sides to strengthen political trust and create a solid foundation to intensify bilateral cooperation based on the Vietnam-New Zealand Action Plan for 2017-2020 signed in November 2017 when New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attended the APEC summit in Da Nang.
There is a great deal of political understanding since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1975 and the comprehensive partnership in 2009. Regular mutual visits of top political leaders have helped hone ties in various sectors and issues. There is also perceptible uptrend in trade and economic ties. Phuc’s visit provided further boost following his address to a business forum attended by a number of big enterprises.
Vietnam is currently the 16th biggest trade partner of New Zealand. Bilateral trade witnessed a growth of 15 to 20 per cent over the past five years. Bilateral trade between the two in 2017 surged by nearly 30 per cent from the previous year and reached $1.2 billion. Given the current trend, the targeted trade in goods and services of $1.7 billion in 2020 seems completely achievable.
Both the countries are members of ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in January 2010. Also, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTTP) was signed in Chile on March 8. Both, along with nine other of the Asean bloc and five partner countries of ASEAN are also taking part in the negotiation on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Both are also making strides in the education sector. More than 2,200 Vietnamese students are studying in New Zealand at present. The signing of some educational cooperation documents such as a strategic cooperation plan for 2018-2020 and some agreements between Universities, with the aim of increasing the number of Vietnamese students in New Zealand by 30 per cent by 2020 was the other highlight of Phuc’s visit.
New Zealand’s specialisation on diary and agricultural products is the envy of the world. Despite a heavily protected industry, agriculture has emerged as an important contributor to trade and investment relations between the two. Like Japan which imported foreign technologies after the War and indigenised to emerge as the second largest economy in the world before it lost the slot to China, Vietnam has benefitted from New Zealand’s help to develop value chains in agricultural production and built the capacity of small- and medium-sized enterprises. Even earlier, Vietnam benefitted from India on rice cultivation and now emerged as a major rice exporting country. Mango, for example, which went from India, is available in Vietnam throughout the year, whereas in India it remains only seasonal.
Tourism is another sector where both the countries can have mutual gains. Both the countries are blessed with plentiful attractive locations and if the aviation sector is strengthened, it would give a boost to tourism. Vietnamese tourists to New Zealand rose by 32 per cent in 2016. New Zealand even fared better as the number of New Zealand visitors to Vietnam soared by 41 per cent because of Air New Zealand’s opening of seasonal direct flights from Auckland to Ho Chi Minh City in 2016. There is immense scope to scale up bilateral ties in all fronts and reach new milestones in each field listed in the Action Plan for 2017-2020. Phuc’s visit shall provide the political push and impetus to help realise these goals. Both sides need to strive hard to optimise the advantages brought by the free trade agreements. If Vietnam is able to make proper use of the trade deals, it would facilitate trade, help meet targets for each group of commodities, especially agricultural products so that it can break barriers to access the highly protected New Zealand market.
This apart, Phuc’s visit is a testimony to the commitment for both nations to work together towards peace, stability, development and prosperity in Asia-Pacific region and the world.
*Phuc in Australia*
When Phuc was on the second leg of his Oceanic trip and reached Australia for a two day 14-15 March trip, similar bonhomie was seen between the political leaders of both the countries. Like with New Zealand, Vietnam has cordial relations with Australia. Having established diplomatic ties in 1973 after negotiations were concluded in Paris that resulted in an Agreement to End the War and Restore the Peace in Vietnam, they now celebrate the 45th anniversary of the official relationship.
In this long journey, there have been two major turning points in Vietnam-Australia relationships: the first in 2009 when Nong Duc Manh, Secretary General of the Vietnam Communist Party visited Canberra and subsequent signing of a joint statement between Deputy Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Pham Gia Khiem raising bilateral relations to a comprehensive partnership; and second, in March 2015 when Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visited Canberra. Though the ground was laid during this time for establishing a strategic partnership in the future, the significance was less noticed then.
While the joint statement premised the partnership to be based on six major areas of mutual cooperation – political and public policy exchanges, economic and trade relations, development assistance and technical cooperation, defence and security, people-to-people links, and global and regional issues – to be implemented through a three-year Plan of Action (2010-13), Dung’s 2015 visit paved way for the signing of the Declaration on Enhancing the Australia-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership. This declaration identified five major areas of cooperation: deepening bilateral ties, regional and international, economic growth, trade and industry development, development assistance, defence, law enforcement and security ties.
Political and economic areas would remain underutilised unless human capital is enriched. With this in mind, Phuc signed an educational cooperation agreement with Australia to create a knowledge pool that would be in sync with each other’s need and requirement. Australia is a major attractive destination for students. There are around 30,000 Vietnamese students studying in Australia, the highest number of foreign students in a foreign country, demonstrating the trust Vietnamese parents and students repose on Australian academic institutions. The fact that over 60,000 Vietnamese graduates from Australian education facilities returned home to serve the nation demonstrates not only to the quality of education they receive in Australia but also the commitments of the students to serve their nation.
The enhanced comprehensive partnership demonstrated that there is a growing convergence of interests and outlook between them. Both are committed to maintain regional security, stability and economic development based on respect for sovereignty and international law. Both give equal importance to multilateral institutions such as the ASEAN, APEC and the EAS.
On the economic domain, both nations are committed to long-term global and regional economic integration based on trade and investment liberalisation. When President Donald Trump withdrew from the TPP, both nations participated in successful negotiations for a Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for TPP-11.
As noted in the beginning of this article, it is significant to note the understanding between India, Japan, Vietnam and Australia in the political and security fields that has emerged. While Vietnam-Australia comprehensive partnership were becoming robust day by day, Vietnam-India strategic partnership was elevated to special status during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hanoi in September 2016. Currently, Vietnam has eleven strategic partnerships, including four of the five members of the UN Security Council, India and Japan. Given the commonality of interests on a host of bilateral, regional and global issues, it was no wonder that bilateral ties were elevated from comprehensive to a strategic level during Phuc’s visit. The four nations mentioned bonding together with common viewpoints on regional security and strategic issues and coordinating policy choices would contribute to the peace and stability of the region. Phuc’s visit to New Zealand and Australia needs to be seen from this broader perspective.
What is at stake is peaceful settlement of regional disputes, commitment to abjure the use of force, respect for international law including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as certain power is determined to disrespect rules governing global trade. It is therefore other law-abiding nations have to come together to address to this common challenge, including that of maritime security. Phuc’s Australia visit needs to be seen as enforcing such critical issues confronting not any single nation but the region as a whole. Related to this, maritime cooperation to maintain order in sea is also every nation’s responsibility. Raising the present level of relations between Vietnam and Australia to a new level would be the major outcome of Phuc’s visit to Australia and could be the third turning point in bilateral ties.
**Dr. Panda* is ICCR India Chair Visiting Professor at Reitaku University, JAPAN. Views expressed are personal and do not represent either of the ICCR or the Government of India. Reported by Eurasia Review 29 minutes ago.
Vietnam has found great sense of commonality with Japan. Changing geopolitical situations in the Indo-Pacific has drawn Vietnam, India and Japan closer to work together for peace and stability in the region. The unilateral approach on certain Asian power on some regional issues of critical importance is worrying for other stakeholders, which is why Vietnam, Japan and India view the changing situation in the same prism.
Against this background, the significance of the visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to New Zealand and Australia needs to be understood. Besides strong ties at bilateral levels between these countries with each other, there are other regional and global issues which compel them to work from a common platform. India-Japan relations are no less significant than India-Australia relations. Similarly, Vietnam-Australia relations are no less significant than Japan-Australia’s relations. The United States provides the common thread to this triangular relationship. Vietnam is equally too important to be left out from this informal grouping. It is in this perspective Prime Minister Phuc’s visit to the two Oceania nations assumes significance.
*Phuc in New Zealand*
In the sequence of visit, Phuc first travelled to New Zealand from 11 to 13 March. This paved the way to create a driving force for the enhancement of the countries’ comprehensive partnership and the expansion of cooperation in the future. As observed by Vietnamese Ambassador to New Zealand Nguyen Viet Dung, Phuc’s visit was meant to affirm Vietnam’s consistent foreign policy of independence, autonomy and multilateralisation of foreign policy, including those with New Zealand. It was also an occasion for the two sides to strengthen political trust and create a solid foundation to intensify bilateral cooperation based on the Vietnam-New Zealand Action Plan for 2017-2020 signed in November 2017 when New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attended the APEC summit in Da Nang.
There is a great deal of political understanding since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1975 and the comprehensive partnership in 2009. Regular mutual visits of top political leaders have helped hone ties in various sectors and issues. There is also perceptible uptrend in trade and economic ties. Phuc’s visit provided further boost following his address to a business forum attended by a number of big enterprises.
Vietnam is currently the 16th biggest trade partner of New Zealand. Bilateral trade witnessed a growth of 15 to 20 per cent over the past five years. Bilateral trade between the two in 2017 surged by nearly 30 per cent from the previous year and reached $1.2 billion. Given the current trend, the targeted trade in goods and services of $1.7 billion in 2020 seems completely achievable.
Both the countries are members of ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in January 2010. Also, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTTP) was signed in Chile on March 8. Both, along with nine other of the Asean bloc and five partner countries of ASEAN are also taking part in the negotiation on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
Both are also making strides in the education sector. More than 2,200 Vietnamese students are studying in New Zealand at present. The signing of some educational cooperation documents such as a strategic cooperation plan for 2018-2020 and some agreements between Universities, with the aim of increasing the number of Vietnamese students in New Zealand by 30 per cent by 2020 was the other highlight of Phuc’s visit.
New Zealand’s specialisation on diary and agricultural products is the envy of the world. Despite a heavily protected industry, agriculture has emerged as an important contributor to trade and investment relations between the two. Like Japan which imported foreign technologies after the War and indigenised to emerge as the second largest economy in the world before it lost the slot to China, Vietnam has benefitted from New Zealand’s help to develop value chains in agricultural production and built the capacity of small- and medium-sized enterprises. Even earlier, Vietnam benefitted from India on rice cultivation and now emerged as a major rice exporting country. Mango, for example, which went from India, is available in Vietnam throughout the year, whereas in India it remains only seasonal.
Tourism is another sector where both the countries can have mutual gains. Both the countries are blessed with plentiful attractive locations and if the aviation sector is strengthened, it would give a boost to tourism. Vietnamese tourists to New Zealand rose by 32 per cent in 2016. New Zealand even fared better as the number of New Zealand visitors to Vietnam soared by 41 per cent because of Air New Zealand’s opening of seasonal direct flights from Auckland to Ho Chi Minh City in 2016. There is immense scope to scale up bilateral ties in all fronts and reach new milestones in each field listed in the Action Plan for 2017-2020. Phuc’s visit shall provide the political push and impetus to help realise these goals. Both sides need to strive hard to optimise the advantages brought by the free trade agreements. If Vietnam is able to make proper use of the trade deals, it would facilitate trade, help meet targets for each group of commodities, especially agricultural products so that it can break barriers to access the highly protected New Zealand market.
This apart, Phuc’s visit is a testimony to the commitment for both nations to work together towards peace, stability, development and prosperity in Asia-Pacific region and the world.
*Phuc in Australia*
When Phuc was on the second leg of his Oceanic trip and reached Australia for a two day 14-15 March trip, similar bonhomie was seen between the political leaders of both the countries. Like with New Zealand, Vietnam has cordial relations with Australia. Having established diplomatic ties in 1973 after negotiations were concluded in Paris that resulted in an Agreement to End the War and Restore the Peace in Vietnam, they now celebrate the 45th anniversary of the official relationship.
In this long journey, there have been two major turning points in Vietnam-Australia relationships: the first in 2009 when Nong Duc Manh, Secretary General of the Vietnam Communist Party visited Canberra and subsequent signing of a joint statement between Deputy Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Pham Gia Khiem raising bilateral relations to a comprehensive partnership; and second, in March 2015 when Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visited Canberra. Though the ground was laid during this time for establishing a strategic partnership in the future, the significance was less noticed then.
While the joint statement premised the partnership to be based on six major areas of mutual cooperation – political and public policy exchanges, economic and trade relations, development assistance and technical cooperation, defence and security, people-to-people links, and global and regional issues – to be implemented through a three-year Plan of Action (2010-13), Dung’s 2015 visit paved way for the signing of the Declaration on Enhancing the Australia-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership. This declaration identified five major areas of cooperation: deepening bilateral ties, regional and international, economic growth, trade and industry development, development assistance, defence, law enforcement and security ties.
Political and economic areas would remain underutilised unless human capital is enriched. With this in mind, Phuc signed an educational cooperation agreement with Australia to create a knowledge pool that would be in sync with each other’s need and requirement. Australia is a major attractive destination for students. There are around 30,000 Vietnamese students studying in Australia, the highest number of foreign students in a foreign country, demonstrating the trust Vietnamese parents and students repose on Australian academic institutions. The fact that over 60,000 Vietnamese graduates from Australian education facilities returned home to serve the nation demonstrates not only to the quality of education they receive in Australia but also the commitments of the students to serve their nation.
The enhanced comprehensive partnership demonstrated that there is a growing convergence of interests and outlook between them. Both are committed to maintain regional security, stability and economic development based on respect for sovereignty and international law. Both give equal importance to multilateral institutions such as the ASEAN, APEC and the EAS.
On the economic domain, both nations are committed to long-term global and regional economic integration based on trade and investment liberalisation. When President Donald Trump withdrew from the TPP, both nations participated in successful negotiations for a Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for TPP-11.
As noted in the beginning of this article, it is significant to note the understanding between India, Japan, Vietnam and Australia in the political and security fields that has emerged. While Vietnam-Australia comprehensive partnership were becoming robust day by day, Vietnam-India strategic partnership was elevated to special status during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hanoi in September 2016. Currently, Vietnam has eleven strategic partnerships, including four of the five members of the UN Security Council, India and Japan. Given the commonality of interests on a host of bilateral, regional and global issues, it was no wonder that bilateral ties were elevated from comprehensive to a strategic level during Phuc’s visit. The four nations mentioned bonding together with common viewpoints on regional security and strategic issues and coordinating policy choices would contribute to the peace and stability of the region. Phuc’s visit to New Zealand and Australia needs to be seen from this broader perspective.
What is at stake is peaceful settlement of regional disputes, commitment to abjure the use of force, respect for international law including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as certain power is determined to disrespect rules governing global trade. It is therefore other law-abiding nations have to come together to address to this common challenge, including that of maritime security. Phuc’s Australia visit needs to be seen as enforcing such critical issues confronting not any single nation but the region as a whole. Related to this, maritime cooperation to maintain order in sea is also every nation’s responsibility. Raising the present level of relations between Vietnam and Australia to a new level would be the major outcome of Phuc’s visit to Australia and could be the third turning point in bilateral ties.
**Dr. Panda* is ICCR India Chair Visiting Professor at Reitaku University, JAPAN. Views expressed are personal and do not represent either of the ICCR or the Government of India. Reported by Eurasia Review 29 minutes ago.
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DIY or die: How an Australian outback nurse diagnosed his own heart attack and saved his life
For a nurse in one of Australia’s most remote corners, it is DIY or die.
Alone at his station, more than 600 miles from the city of Perth and 100 miles from any hospital at all, the 44-year-old man experiences a sudden bout of dizziness and severe chest pain.
What he does next is remarkable, life-saving... Reported by L.A. Times 35 minutes ago.
Alone at his station, more than 600 miles from the city of Perth and 100 miles from any hospital at all, the 44-year-old man experiences a sudden bout of dizziness and severe chest pain.
What he does next is remarkable, life-saving... Reported by L.A. Times 35 minutes ago.
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Is this stock the best way to profit from Australia’s ageing population?
This stock could be the best way to play the ageing population theme.
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2010 heatwave released the same amount of CO2 as 1.6 million cars
Researchers form Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) studied the death of seagrass in Shark Bay in Australia.
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Commonwealth Games 2018: IoM athletes head for Gold Coast
BBC Local News: Isle of Man -- The 33-strong Manx team flies to Australia's Gold Coast ahead of next month's Commonwealth Games.
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Rosberg: Hamilton rivals need perfect seasons to stop him
Former world champion Nico Rosberg has warned Lewis Hamilton’s title rivals that they will need to produce flawless seasons in order to prevent the Briton winning a fifth Formula One crown this year.Rosberg pipped his then-Mercedes team-mate to the title in 2016 but, following the German’s sudden retirement, Hamilton reasserted his dominance with a fourth drivers’ championship last term.
The Englishman is favourite to prevail again when the new season begins in Australia on Sunday, and Rosberg believes the likes of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen of Red Bull face an uphill battle.
*Read more*: Lewis Hamilton set to sign new £120m contract with Mercedes
“When Lewis has his good weekends he is almost unbeatable. He is unbelievably fast and maybe the best guy out there,” said Rosberg, now a pundit for Sky Sports’ F1 coverage.
“The only way to beat Lewis is to be 100 per cent with everything, do the perfect season. Otherwise there is no chance.”
Hamilton trailed Vettel by 14 points before last year’s mid-season break but rallied to win the title by 46 points.
“The weakness Lewis has is a bit of inconsistency. He has these periods when he is just not on it,” added Rosberg.
“If you are able to pounce in those periods and really make the most of it, you can keep him down for a while longer. Sebastian did that pretty well last year.”
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, meanwhile, is predicting a three-way tussle for supremacy between his outfit, Ferrari and Red Bull.
The reigning constructors’ champions are targeting a fifth title in a row, but Wolff played down their chances.
“A new season feels like climbing Mount Everest,” he said. “We have done it successfully in the past, but we’re only in the base camp at the moment.”
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Motor racing: Hamilton on top, but concern at grassroots level
BANBURY, England (Reuters) - Britain is on top of the world in Formula One, with Lewis Hamilton beginning his quest for a fifth championship in Australia this weekend, but there is concern at grassroots level.
Reported by Reuters 14 hours ago.
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Fast Asia Open: Australia house prices, Taiwan exports
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Lewis Hamilton thanks fans as F1 champion travels to Australia
Lewis Hamilton has thanked 'all those have supported me all this way' as he prepares to begin the defence of his Formula One world title. Mercedes driver Hamilton is aiming for his fifth championship.
Reported by MailOnline 13 hours ago.
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The opportunities are endless for UK firms that head Down Under
I have recently returned from a whistle-stop tour of Australia and New Zealand, with the aim of deepening policy engagement with the UK’s most obvious partners in the southern Hemisphere.I visited Auckland, Whangarei, and Wellington in New Zealand, and then travelled onwards to Sydney, Canberra, and Perth in Australia. While there, I witnessed some of the great opportunities on offer to UK business. The region, despite (or maybe because of) the constant banter about the Ashes and the recent British Lions tour, felt much closer to home than the day-long flight would suggest.
I was delighted to find UK businesses flourishing, along with a real sense of optimism for the future, and for improving on UK exports to the region, which already total almost £10bn.
*Read more*: The future is bright for Australian-UK business relations
The opportunities for investment in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia’s largest cities, are well known. I was thrilled to hear of a collaboration between Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens and London’s Kew Gardens on a pioneering network of global seed banks. I also learned about aspirations for a regional fintech co-operative to promote links between startups in Sydney and those in London.
In New Zealand, Auckland is booming. It has quickly transformed into a major city, having experienced high population growth fuelled by immigration from the Pacific Island states and Asia, in particular India and China.
To accommodate this rapid economic growth, Auckland is prioritising infrastructure, and UK businesses are perfectly placed to support these advancements. As I said to the mayor of Auckland, British businesses already have a wealth of experience in developing new transport networks such as HS2 and Crossrail.
However, there is more to these two great allies than their respective economic powerhouses.
Our high commissioner to Australia, Menna Rawlings, spends a major part of her time flying to every corner of the country in support of British interests – from the remote Western Australian sheep station of Boolardy, the future home of the amazing Square Kilometre Array radio telescope and a major multi-country project headquartered at the Jodrell Bank Observatory (which is also part of University of Manchester), to the eastern border and the Great Barrier Reef, with its unique biodiversity, stunning tropical scenery, and cutting-edge marine science.
Research and education links are at the heart of our relationship with Australia – British universities have more than 500 agreements with institutions across the country, and over 6,000 co-publications are produced annually.
My travels across the breadth of both countries helped me make the case for British business. In New Zealand’s city of Whangarei, we held detailed discussions about the potential for moving the port of Auckland to Whangarei, and upgrading the road infrastructure to support closer links between the two cities. The plans were bold, but realistic. UK expertise stands well placed to support these efforts.
I rounded off the trip by welcoming HMS Sutherland to Perth, the most remote city of its size anywhere in the world, as part of the ship’s wider visit to the Indo-Pacific, and in support of UK defence engagement and procurement at a time when Australia is looking to upgrade its own naval hardware.
Throughout the trip, I was consistently impressed by the dynamism and the opportunities provided by the region for British businesses. As we move towards leaving the EU, it is of increasing importance that we look beyond Europe and the US to our historic partners in the southern hemisphere.
Finally, for those tempted to make the trip down under, I have some good news. As of next week Qantas will launch a direct 17 hour flight to Perth. This friendly Western Australian city stands as an ideal gateway to a continent of opportunity that stands to play an important part in the UK’s post-Brexit strategy.
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Women ditch stylish high heels for the comfort of sneakers or flats
Women are ditching their stylish high heels for the comfort of sneakers or flats - as the sales of stilettos have plunged across Australia for the past five years.
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David Pocock closing on Brumbies return as he targets Super Rugby derby clash with the New South Wales Waratahs
The former Australia captain took a year out of the game before needing an operation on a knee injury, but Brumbies coach Dan McKellar has confirmed he could play this month
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SA's Rabada can play against Australia after series ban reduced
South Africa pace bowler Kagiso Rabada can play in the final two Test matches against Australia after winning an appeal to have his series ban reduced.
Reported by BBC Sport 4 hours ago.
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Rabada cleared to play in third Test after ban reduced
South Africa pace bowler Kagiso Rabada can play in the final two Test matches against Australia after winning an appeal to have his series ban reduced.
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Kagiso Rabada ban overturned over shoulder clash with Steve Smith
South Africa paceman Kagiso Rabada has been cleared to play in this week's third Test against Australia by the ICC. The 22-year-old's two-match ban has been overturned after an appeal.
Reported by MailOnline 3 hours ago.
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Rio Tinto sells Hail Creek coal mine to Glencore for $1.7bn
Rio Tinto said this morning it will sell its Hail Creek coal mine and the Valeria coal development project in Queensland to Glencore for $1.7bn (£1.2bn).The sale includes Rio Tinto's 82 per cent stake in the Hail Creek mine and its 71.2 per cent interest in the Valeria project.
The mining giants expect the deal to be wrapped up in the second half of the year, with Rio Tinto saying the funds will be used for "general corporate purposes".
It is expecting Australian income tax to be payable on sale proceeds, estimated to come in at around $300m.
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Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques said: "The sale of Hail Creek and Valeria delivers compelling value for our shareholders and continues our strategy of strengthening our portfolio, focusing on highest returns, maintaining a strong balance sheet and allocating capital to the highest value opportunities."
The deal is subject to customary conditions being ticked, including getting the go-ahead from Australia's Foreign Investment and Review board, the Queensland government and applicable foreign competition authorities.
Separately, a process is underway to sell Rio Tinto's Australian coal assets, with the firm saying it will update the market on the process as appropriate.
Last month, it was announced that Norway's Hydro had made a $345m binding offer for Rio Tinto's European aluminium assets as the mining giant continues to streamline its business.
Rio Tinto said that move reflected the firm's commitment to strengthening the business and delivering more value through streamlining its portfolio. It has been looking to focus on growth in iron ore, as well as copper and aluminium, and away from coal.
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Ashton Agar: Middlesex sign Australia all-rounder for T20 Blast
Middlesex sign Australia and Perth Scorchers all-rounder Ashton Agar for the entire 2018 T20 Blast.
Reported by BBC Sport 2 hours ago.
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It will be exciting to play Kagiso Rabada: Nathan Lyon
Rabada successfully appealed against an International Cricket Council sanction for brushing the shoulder of Australia captain Steve Smith in the second test, getting his punishment reduced from three demerit points to one.
Reported by Zee News 40 minutes ago.
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Australia: Obvious risks and trip hazards – The Thistle Company of Australia Pty Ltd v Bretz & Tam Faragher & Associates Pty Ltd [2018] QCA 6 - Gilchrist Connell
Where variations to surroundings expose members of the public to the risk of injury, a robust response is required.
Reported by Mondaq 48 minutes ago.
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