Delighted to participate in the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives Ministerial Council Meeting with Assistant Trade Minister Senator Tim Ayres leading our delegation. We welcomed Indonesia's accession roadmap and Thailand's membership application and marked 10 years of the Southeast Asia Regional Programme.

Thrilled to be back in Jakarta to launch #Indonesia’s process of accession to the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives. #OECD accession will help anchor 🇮🇩’s reform agenda. Very good discussions on next steps with both 🇮🇩 President @Jokowi and President-Elect @Prabowo together with Minister @Airlangga_Hrt.

Australia was delighted to support this decision to open OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives accession discussions with Thailand, beginning its journey to membership. The OECD continues in its commitment to deepen engagement in the Indo-Pacific ✅

The OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives-Food and Agriculture Organization Outlook shows we're not on track to meet UN goals on hunger, food waste or climate change. The report’s findings reinforce the need to transform agri-food systems: 🔹reduce trade barriers 🔹drive innovation 🔹repurpose subsidies

New Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs article highlights the urgent need for WTO members to reform harmful subsidies, and stresses the role of OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives, WTO, IMF, World Bank & others in providing evidence to guide this reform – work 🇦🇺 is actively supporting at the OECD. tessforum.org/latest/practic…

Discover OECD Development's Development Co-operation Report for 2024! Key recommendations include: 🟢Integrating poverty reduction & climate in program design & evaluation 🟢Building capacity in developing countries’ tax systems 🟢Expanding skill development opportunities for women

As #Paris2024 kicks off this week, get an early local development perspective on preparations for the 2032 games in Brisbane! Dy Currie, Brisbane's City Planner, explains how they are engaging with stakeholders to ensure the Games link with wider city growth priorities 🥇

📢Hear the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives's projections for agricultural markets 🚜📈and what it means for Australian agriculture: Joint OECD Agriculture ➡ Towards Better Food Policies/ABARES webinar on Tuesday 17 September at 4pm AEST / 8am CEST. Register here 👇 meetoecd1.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Watch our OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2023-32 webinar for a 10-year projection on the prospects for agricultural commodity and fish markets at national, regional, and global levels 👉 brnw.ch/21wMPVg #UnitedNations

Great to open the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives #ConsumerPolicy Ministerial Meeting alongside 🇦🇺 Stephen Jones. Important discussions about how to protect and empower consumers in the digital marketplace and when making sustainable consumption choices. 🔗 oe.cd/5IY

Ministers adopted the Declaration on Protecting and Empowering Consumers in the Digital & Green Transition at the 🇦🇺-chaired OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives Consumer Policy Ministerial yesterday ✅ Find all the key deliverables for ensuring open & fair consumer markets here: bit.ly/3NhOFtn

Pleased to officially launch the OECD accession process for Thailand in Bangkok with Maris Sangiampongsa. Accession can help Thailand achieve its goal of becoming a high-income advanced economy by 2037, boosting investment and improving living standards. ➡️ oe.cd/5L9

📢 The 2025 edition of the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives's flagship agriculture report is published on Wednesday. It updates estimates of farm subsidies across 54 major economies and this year focuses on policies for sustainable productivity growth. Watch the launch (9pm AEDT): video.oecd.org/9dc8161b70dfa6…

🚨OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives: global farm subsidies at $842bn/yr. These distort markets & can harm the environment. Trade barriers raise living costs $138bn/yr. It recommends: 🔹phasing out most distorting subsidies 🔹reorienting subsidies towards innovation 🔹reducing low-efficiency income support

Australia looks forward to continuing to support 🇮🇩 on the path to OECD accession!

🌍 What’s next for the global economy? The #OECD Economic Outlook launches on 4 Dec at 10:00 CET! SG Mathias Cormann & Chief Economist Álvaro Santos Pereira will present the key findings. ▶️More details: oe.cd/5OQ #EconomicOutlook

Dive into the new OECD Economics Indonesia Survey, which finds: 📈Growth has recovered & prudent monetary and fiscal policy can build stability 🏗️Employment, education & business environment can be enhanced for long-term prosperity 🌲 Climate adaptation should be mainstreamed

The Australian Government is now in a caretaker period in advance of the forthcoming election. Until a new government is sworn in, government operations are conducted in accordance with the caretaker conventions: pmc.gov.au/resources/guid…