The Latest Breaking News from Tim Harcourt

Japan faces a ‘rice crisis’ as price nearly doubles for food staple

The price of Japanese-grown rice is soaring due to high inflation, low farm yields and a growing tourism sector.

Al Jazeera · May 23, 2025

Future US tariffs could target Australian drug makers

A think tank has warned Australia's pharmaceutical sector could be one of the industries impacted if Donald Trump's administration imposes more tariffs.

AAP · Mar 14, 2025

What are Trump’s plans for tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico?

US president-elect has promised to impose tariffs for as long as drugs and undocumented migrants flow into the country.

Al Jazeera · Nov 26, 2024

Ag export success linked to sustainability

Agriculture Minister Murray Watt is visiting the UK and Europe to discuss free trade agreements and promote the sustainability of Australian farms.

AAP · Jan 16, 2023

How Australian economist Sean Turnell came to be in and freed from a Myanmar jail

Macquarie University economist Sean Turnell is free and living in Sydney after 650 days of imprisonment in Myanmar, for what appears to be the “crime” of doing an economist’s job, which is trying to make people’s lives better – in this case the lives of the people of Myanmar.

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2022

Released Australian adviser supports sanctions against Myanmar officials

Australia should sanction Myanmar's military government and the regime's bankers, Sean Turnell, the Australian economist and adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in his first interview since being released from a Myanmar jail last week.

Reuters · Nov 21, 2022

Australian freed in Myanmar amnesty lands in Melbourne

An Australian adviser to deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, returned home on Friday, Australia's foreign minister said, a day he was released from detention by the Southeast Asian nation's military junta in a mass amnesty.

Reuters · Nov 18, 2022

Friends of Australian Sean Turnell concerned after fatal bomb blast at Myanmar prison where he is being held

Amnesty International says the violence at the prison "is infuriating and heartbreaking because it shows how those detained and their visiting families are both at risk of serious harm".

ABC News · Oct 20, 2022

Australian economist Sean Turnell's fate in secret Myanmar trial to be known next week, reports say

Supporters of Australian advisor to former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Sean Turnell, are hopeful of his possible release as his secret trial concludes.

ABC News · Sep 23, 2022

‘Most feared disease’: Indonesian farmers’ foot and mouth misery

Southeast Asian nation is grappling with its first outbreak of foot and mouth disease in nearly 40 years.

Al Jazeera · Jul 12, 2022