Labour tests key issue in trade deal: ACTU

Labour tests key issue in trade deal: ACTU photo Labour tests key issue in trade deal: ACTU

His feedback came after Trade Minister Andrew Robb is advised which the agreement technique was in fact getting the Chinais thatAustralia no cost job arrangement on the line by misrepresenting the drug along the deal togerher with its treatment for unfamiliar workforce.



Mr Hockey said opinions were divided among the world’s central bankers and finance ministers from the Group of 20 economies at their meeting in Turkey.

“I give you this pledge – we will fight just as hard to say yes to the China free trade agreement as we fought to say no to the carbon tax”, he told the party faithful. It doesn’t involve changing any migration laws.

“It was made explicitly clear that the free trade agreement will not be renegotiated”, Mr Hockey told AAP from Istanbul on Sunday.

ACTU assistant secretary Scott Connolly insisted unions were not anti-trade and recognised the value of low tariffs, increased exports and free access to overseas markets.

“It’s been brutal in the sense of frightening people and scaring people and making out Australia is going to be invaded by Chinese”, he said.

Opposition trade spokeswoman Penny Wong said Labor believed a high-quality China FTA was good for Australia.

The deal, which members of Abbott’s conservative government called the best ever signed between Beijing and a Western country, will open up Chinese markets to Australian farm exporters and the services sector while easing curbs on Chinese investment in resource-rich Australia.

A parliamentary inquiry into the agreement will wrap up this week after hearing from trade department officials and industry representatives.

Labor leader Bill Shorten has said he could not support the deal unless developers were forced to complete labour market testing.

Normal processes for the nominations of foreign workers would have to be followed, he said.

He said the prime minister and others are “seriously misleading” Australian people about the impact of the agreement.

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