Patrick J Byrne is President of the National Civic Council. He has a BA from the University of Queensland majoring in economics. He later earned a BTheol and gained a Diploma in Teaching. After several years as a secondary school teacher in Brisbane, in the early 1980s he moved to Melbourne to become a journalist with the NCC's News Weekly.
Globalisation promised peace through interdependence, but great powers now weaponise trade, technology and finance. As tensions rise between China, Russia and the United States, economic ties risk becoming tools of deterrence - or destruction.
Date posted: 2026-04-04