COVER STORY: Don’t torch the sugar industry!*

As a middle-sized trading nation which is dependent on its export industries to maintain Australians’ standard of living, blind opposition to international trade agreements is clearly against Australia’s national interests.Equally, however, a policy which endorses the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement – or any other international agreement – without a careful cost-benefit analysis is foolish.It was because of widespread concerns over previous agreements negotiated by Canberra bureaucrats, and si…

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