The world, explained for Australia.
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Cobalt is the metal that powers the world's electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Australia has little of it, and that's a problem.
By The Daily World · 30 June 2026
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Beneath our feet lies a vast hidden resource shared across borders. Understanding aquifers helps explain water scarcity, food security, and Australia's role in a thirsty world.
By The Daily World · 30 June 2026
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Nuclear power is surging as nations chase carbon-free energy. Australia holds 30% of the world's uranium but exports almost none of it. Here's the economics and geopolitics of the fuel that powers reactors across the planet.
By The Daily World · 30 June 2026
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Cotton is the world's most traded natural fibre, worth billions annually. Australia is a major player, but prices swing on harvests continents away and the market faces pressure from synthetics and sustainability demands.
By The Daily World · 30 June 2026
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Phosphorus is essential to feed the world, but unlike nitrogen it cannot be made from air. Australia relies on finite rock deposits thousands of kilometres away.
By The Daily World · 30 June 2026
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Three West African nations produce most of the world's cocoa. When their harvests fail or politics destabilises, chocolate prices spike everywhere, including Australia.
By The Daily World · 30 June 2026
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Multinational companies shift profits to low-tax countries legally. Australia is fighting back, but the game remains stacked in favour of the wealthy.
By The Daily World · 30 June 2026
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The ocean feeds billions of people. Understanding who catches what, where the rules break down, and why Australian waters are under pressure.
By The Daily World · 30 June 2026
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Discover how frost in Brazil and drought in East Africa affect Australian coffee prices and availability within months. Learn the fragile supply chain behind your daily cup.
By The Daily World · 29 June 2026
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The Pacific Islands Forum is the main regional body in Australia's most immediate neighbourhood, and the diplomacy around it reveals a great deal about Australian foreign policy priorities.
By The Daily World · 19 June 2026
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Migrant workers send hundreds of billions of dollars home each year, making remittances one of the most important financial flows in the developing world.
By The Daily World · 14 June 2026
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The network of farms, ships, processors, and retailers that puts food on tables worldwide is far more complex and fragile than most people realise.
By The Daily World · 8 June 2026
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For low-lying Pacific nations, rising seas and intensifying storms are not future scenarios but present-day threats to land, water, and sovereignty.
By The Daily World · 6 June 2026
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The World Bank lends billions of dollars a year to developing countries, but its role is more complicated and more contested than its name suggests.
By The Daily World · 21 May 2026
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Africa is on course to be home to more than a quarter of the world's population by mid-century, a shift that will reshape global economics, politics, and migration.
By The Daily World · 19 May 2026
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Solar and wind power are now the cheapest sources of new electricity on earth, but the grid they plug into was built for a different era.
By The Daily World · 11 May 2026
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Hydrogen is the universe's most abundant element and could be a zero-carbon fuel, but closing the gap between that promise and commercial reality has proved far harder than expected.
By The Daily World · 5 May 2026
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No single country makes a chip from scratch, and the decades-long process of specialisation that created that interdependence is now a source of strategic anxiety.
By The Daily World · 3 May 2026