Did you know that Australia is helping Singapore 'be creative' to address its imbalance of ballet dancers to engineers and that there is a Transylvanian Cricket Club full of Aussies in Romania? Or that Israeli youngsters are crazy for Tim Tams and the French are buying Billabong board shorts in Bordeaux on Bastille Day? Well if you didn't, The Airport Economist is just for you.
World game a perfect fit for world trade
Tim Harcourt Australians once were worriers. And we had good reason to be.
Form for export success
Tim Harcourt When you are punting on this year’s Melbourne Cup, have a bit of sympathy for Australia’s 44,000 exporters who have to make their big bets on international markets.
Making our own luck
Tim Harcourt Ten years ago, in 2000, just after Sydney had hosted the Olympic Games, the Australian dollar was worth about about 50 US cents.
Cutting it at the chalk face
Tim Harcourt Like many Australians, I can say I have been a great beneficiary of education.
No longer just cricket
Tim Harcourt The Commonwealth Games are off and running (and swimming and jumping etc..)
Aussie rules goes global
Tim Harcourt Well it’s on again – the grand final between St Kilda and Collingwood.
Australia’s new frontier in Africa
Tim Harcourt At mining Indaba in Cape Town, one of the world’s largest mining conferences, I met an unusual delegate.
Small businesses, broader horizons
Tim Harcourt Small is still beautiful ... when it comes to exporting, that is.
MySchool's role in advancing Australia
Tim Harcourt Remember Al Grassby, the colourful immigration minister in the Whitlam government?
Bright lights, big city
Tim Harcourt How much does Australia rely on China? This question came up as we rose out the global financial crisis (GFC) . . .
A new ANZAC tradition
Tim Harcourt I have just been in New Zealand and let’s face it, we Aussies can sometimes get a bit of a hard time there unless we can demonstrate some sort of Kiwi connection.?
Will this be the rush that never ended?
Tim Harcourt Is every boom just like the last one? Or is this one different?
Putting the green back into the green and gold
Tim Harcourt Imagine a country that is inward looking and rarely notices the world beyond its own borders. There’s double-digit inflation and unemployment and a poor record of economic growth. Workers and their ..
Look north: Australia's growing ‘Power of Proximity’
Tim Harcourt The local neighbourhood to our near north is becoming an important economic region to Australia, accounting for 10% of our trade.
Australian business: where the bolly hell are you?
Tim Harcourt It really is going to be an Indian summer for Australian exporters and investors with Australia’s expanded commitment to the sub-continent.
The second age of Macquarie
Tim Harcourt Over the summer holidays and in the lead up to Australia Day, I did a lot of thinking about our convict heritage and the economics of colonial Australia.
The magic of the net: Turning yabbies into oysters
Tim Harcourt For me, it all started with yabbies. When I first joined the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade), I met a remarkable woman called Mary Nenke.
Ask yourself, 'what would God do?'
Tim Harcourt ''I saw God, she’s black,'' was the old, politically correct (or incorrect, I am not sure which) joke of the 1970s. ''I saw God, she’s living in Cambridge,'' was a variant of my father Geoff when he .
My big fat Greek debt
Tim Harcourt In early, 2010 markets have been spooked by the Greek debt crisis.
May the moose be with you? The Aussies take Vancouver 2010
Tim Harcourt Canada has an image problem. It’s too good. The country is too beautiful, the people too polite and friendly, the society too cohesive, the institutions too effective. It’s a nice problem to ...
