Confluence Pacific Critical minerals: France wants its share in Australia. But first, it needs to be there! "France is more and more keen." Four words from Madeleine King, Australian Minister for Resources, reported this morning by Reuters from the Minerals Week summit in Canberra. Four words that will not ... 26 Mar 2026
Confluence Pacific EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement: it's done. Eight years of negotiations, and now? This morning in Canberra, Ursula von der Leyen and Anthony Albanese put an end to eight years of negotiations. The EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement is concluded. A security and defence partnership ha... 24 Mar 2026
Confluence Pacific EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement 2026: why French companies should invest in Western Australia now Ursula von der Leyen is in Sydney and Canberra this week. She is there to finalise a free trade agreement between the European Union and Australia, negotiated since 2018, buried in 2023, and resurrect... 22 Mar 2026
Confluence Pacific The Indian Ocean: New Global Growth Basin and the Strategic Asset of Western Australia This morning, while reading an article in Le Monde that confirmed what I observe daily from Perth, I felt that familiar sensation of dislocation. Not just geographical, these 14,000 kilometres that se... 20 Jan 2026
Confluence Pacific De l'extraction à la transformation : comment l'Australie-Occidentale capitalise sur la crise industrielle européenne Ce matin, en parcourant un recent article du Monde de Velum Marion Kindermans concernant 165 sites industriels français menacés depuis septembre, j'ai ressenti cette sensation familière du grand écart... 11 Dec 2025
Confluence Pacific Pourquoi l'Australie est une Opportunité Stratégique pour les Entreprises Françaises en 2025 During a recent conversation with a former French acquaintance, the director of a small business specialising in watchmaking, one question kept coming up: "Why Australia now?" This question resonates ... 8 Dec 2025
