Farmers and business people protested recently in Cairns against Australia’s lead in the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on free trade in agriculture products.The “Cairns Group” of nations, led by Australia, was meeting in north Queensland to try and revive the stalled Doha round of trade talks on liberalizing trade in agricultural goods.The Prism group protest called on the WTO to back “Mutual fair trade”, meaning that trade concessions should be reciprocal, rather than open free trade. Th…
