Australia's resource sectors. Challenges and opportunities in the 1990s

As a result of the prospects unleashed by the economic and political restructuring in Eastern Europe, the USSR, Latin America, Western Europe, Northeast Asia, and North America, the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next century could bring vigorous growth to the world economy in general and to resource exporting countries - such as Australia - in particular. This article surveys these global prospects, Australia's prospective domestic environment during the 1990s and the extent to which Australia's resource sectors can maintain and enhance their world class status in the global economy.