Good morning, Paper, packaging and recycling magnate Anthony Pratt has lauded Australia’s rapid advance towards $100bn in annual food exports , with 70 per cent of our farmed production being sold to 169 markets. Mr Pratt will address The Australian and Visy Group’s 13th annual Global Food Forum in Melbourne today. Meanwhile, Westpac CEO Anthony Miller says Australia should not “overreact” to US President Donald Trump’s tariff hit and says the nation should “sit back and see if there’s an alternate path we can follow”. And the US wants to boost “responsible and transparent” development of critical minerals assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a stricken Australian explorer, AVZ Minerals, has fought to regain control of a lithium deposit it claims was unlawfully seized by a Chinese company. |