After both an interesting and thought provoking first day of the Partnership Forum, the second and final session of the program began with an address from our Trade Minister Tim Groser. He set the stage for a day of discussion focused more towards the public sector with trade, security and foreign policy atop the agenda. Two plenary sessions which incited …

The South African High Court has issued a damning judgment saying Huka Lodge owner Alex van Heeren made deliberate misrepresentations to his former business partner Michael Kidd inducing him to sign away his rights to a share in worldwide assets claimed to be worth $US25million – $US30 million. Judge Kathy Satchwell has declared void the January 18, 1991 indemnity agreement …

“You are not the first people to walk this earth,” that’s how Pulitzer Prize winning author David Hackett Fischer yesterday dealt with (note not ‘dealt to’) clear impatience by some Future Partners’ to have a bigger role in the actions that will determine our combined futures. “You can learn from experienced people as we learn from the experience of the …