Across the Atlantic, our European trading partners, who absorb more than one-tenth of our exports, are likely to remain a source of global instability for a while yet. Persistent sovereign debt crises and underlying structural problems in several euro area economies will take time to resolve.
Copland, one of Australia’s most remarkable economists of the Depression era, was a member of ‘Giblin’s Platoon’, whose history is recorded so nicely in the recent book of that name. 1 CEDA has over the years made a substantial contribution to debate in a number of fields, from trade policy to taxation policy, from indigenous affairs to infrastructure.