Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with Scott Morrison

The bigger context of the Oz-UK bilateral deal*

It is not as well known as it should be that Bob Hawke and Paul Keating took a sledgehammer to our trade policy when they decided to expose the full range of Australian manufacturing to unbridled international competition.

Their decisions undermined not merely our manufacturing industries. They also took the same sledgehammer to our capacity to maintain our farm sector in its traditional way. What’s more, they effectively dismantled all of the protections …

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