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A Senate Estimates hearing into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has revealed that Australia’s diplomatic services are “perilously close to critical condition” according to key interrogator Senator Russell Trood. DFAT secretary Dennis Richardson acknowledged that the department required further resources, with consular services at a “pressure point” as reduced services struggle to [...]
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Minister for Trade Simon Crean has appointed Peter Grey the new chief executive for Austrade, Australia’s trade commission. Grey, currently the Australian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, has both domestic and international experience in trade and commercial relationships. Prior to his current position, he held a number of [...]
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Australia has increased its emergency assistance to Haiti by $5 million after the Federal Government found that the situation outside Haiti capital Port-au-Prince was more dire than at first thought. The funding will be distributed among The World Food Programme ($3 million), Australian non-government organisations ($1 million), and the Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs [...]
...read moreAustralia increased its exports by 22.6 percent to almost $284 billion last year despite the economic downturn, according to a new Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) report, Australia’s Trade by State and Territory 2008-09. Coal and iron ore were the commodities instrumental to export growth. Western Australia had the rising price of iron [...]
...read moreThe Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has reissued its travel advice for people who plan to visit Haiti. Due to last week’s 7.3 magnitude earthquake near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, DFAT has added the disaster to a list of reasons for travellers to reconsider their visit. “On 12 January 2010, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake [...]
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The total value of Australian goods and services rose 14.6 percent in the 2008/09 financial year, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade publication Composition of Trade Australia 2008-09. Worth $563.7 billion, trade for the year consisted of a rise in export volume of 1.8 percent, but a rise in value of 21.9 [...]
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The Federal Government’s latest outlook has flagged a $100 million cutback for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), reversing some of the funding increases given to the department in the Federal Budget. Released last week, the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook revealed cutbacks to the tune of $105.2 million over four years. DFAT [...]
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This year has proved tumultuous for Indonesia, with the presidential election and Jakarta hotel bombings taking centre stage. In the aftermath, how is the Indonesian market positioned for Australian exporters? Find out some of the trade opportunities available from our northern neighbour presents
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The latest data issued by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) reveal that arrests of Australian citizens have increased almost 40 percent over the past five years. The DFAT annual report for the 2008/09 financial year indicates that 1,019 Australians were arrested in the year to June 30, 2009, with the US [...]
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The value of Australian service exports increased 10.4 percent to $53.2 billion last year, according to a report by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Topping the service exports was education, which registered a rise of more than 23 percent to $15.5 billion. ‘Other business’, such as technical, professional and financial services, saw [...]
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