The world, explained for Australia.
The World
For the first time in human history, the number of older people is outpacing the number of children, and the economic consequences are only beginning to show.
By The Daily World · 21 February 2026
The World
Two ocean temperature patterns on the other side of the world drive Australia's cycles of drought, flood, and fire with remarkable regularity.
By The Daily World · 19 February 2026
The World
The AUKUS partnership is the most consequential defence commitment Australia has made in generations, yet its details remain largely unknown to most Australians.
By The Daily World · 15 February 2026
The World
Australia is one of the world's largest LNG exporters, yet most Australians could not explain what LNG is or how it reaches customers across Asia.
By The Daily World · 13 February 2026
The World
Central banks raising rates in Washington and Frankfurt can make groceries more expensive in Australia, through a chain of effects that is less obvious than it first appears.
By The Daily World · 3 February 2026
The World
Getting a vaccine from a laboratory to an arm on the other side of the world involves a chain of manufacturing, cold storage, and logistics that most people never see.
By The Daily World · 30 January 2026
The World
No other country shapes Australia's economic fortunes as directly as China, and understanding why reveals how exposed the Australian economy really is.
By The Daily World · 20 January 2026
The World
The Australian dollar rises and falls for reasons that are partly domestic and partly global, and the direction it moves determines a surprising amount about everyday prices.
By The Daily World · 15 January 2026
The World
The jump from local outbreak to global pandemic follows a recognisable pattern, and the systems designed to catch it early are better than they were, though still imperfect.
By The Daily World · 10 January 2026
The World
The Paris Agreement is the closest the world has come to a shared climate contract, but how it works, and what it does not require, is widely misunderstood.
By The Daily World · 8 January 2026
The World
When the world's most powerful central bank moves its benchmark rate, Australian borrowers eventually feel it, even though Washington has no authority over the Reserve Bank of Australia.
By The Daily World · 31 December 2025
The World
A handful of narrow waterways control the flow of the goods that fill supermarket shelves worldwide, and when they seize up, prices move fast.
By The Daily World · 29 December 2025