ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: How will trade and agriculture stack up under the Coalition?*

True to all of the indications of Coalition intentions before the election, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has undergone a radical change. Its trade function has been separated from foreign affairs and recreated as a stand-alone department with the added function of investment. The new Trade Minister is Andrew Robb. This has transformed the policy, enacted in 1987 by the Hawke Labor government, of amalgamating the formerly separate departments of foreign affairs and trade in…

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