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Thread on foreign policy/ODA in budget. In brief: fairly slim pickings. No huge announcements. Slight increase in ODA in 24/25 to $4.96 billion (last budget said it would be $4.83 bil) But most noteworthy new investments are in Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 itself– around $670 million over 9 years 1/

🤓 80% of australia's gas is used for export.

the biggest domestic use of gas is to process gas for export! (much of this could be electrified.)

we burn more gas running LNG export plants (7.3%) than in either the entire manufacturing (6.9%) and power generation (6.6%) sectors.

I'm looking forward to hosting Treasurer Jim Chalmers MP at the The Lowy Institute today. The Treasurer's address, and our conversation afterwards, will be live-streamed on the Institute’s website from 12:30pm AEST. Join us online! lowyinstitute.org/event/address-…

Totally agree Australia should be looking to its competitive advantages to help accelerate SEA's net zero transition. Rooftop solar is an obvious place to start. Rather than looking at DARPA, Export Finance Australia should start by learning the lessons from Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the CEFC

East Antarctica 38.5C above seasonal average on March 18th.

Biggest jump in temperature ever recorded at a met station - anywhere on Earth.

Just staggering.

Make no mistake.

Anything is now possible. And I mean anything.

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Hearing from multiple sources that the recipients of the IRA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund funding round will be announced tomorrow. Will the US$14billion National Clean Investment Fund operate as a national #GreenBank ? Looking forward to seeing details!

The The Lowy Institute’s Alexandre Dayant & Grace Stanhope have mapped China’s infrastructure funding promises to Southeast Asian countries vs what has actually been built. They have revealed a sizeable gap between what Beijing promises and what it delivers.
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24 megaprojects, 8 #ASEAN countries, $77 billion - but $50 billion yet to show up on the ground. The scale of #China 's ambition is unmatched, but its delivery is challenged by political instability, weak stakeholder consultation + clean energy transition.

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United States Studies Centre Non-Resident Fellow Helen Mitchell has delivered a cracker of a report, 'Unlocking Economic Security'. Helen takes lessons from history to create tools for Australian policymakers. bit.ly/43uZa3w

New The Lowy Institute Podcast! Richard Baldwin joins us to explore the intersection of globalisation & robotics, and its effects on developing economies. Dive into the disruptive world of 'globotics' in the labor market & the public policies needed to adapt lowyinstitute.org/publications/d…