The effects of China’s demand for iron ore on the Australian economy

In your essay, you are expected to illustrate: • The broad details of how China’s demand and Australia’s investment and supply of iron ore have evolved over the past 15 years (in brief) • the impact of this event on the Australian macroeconomic cycle and labor demand • the consequent challenges for fiscal and monetary policy in managing the macroeconomic cycle • the opportunities and risks to the future of Australia’s ongoing iron ore (and more broadly its economic) engagement with China.