News
Australia’s Trade Minister says it’s “deeply frustrating” that China refuses to discuss its “unacceptable” targeting of Australian exports, with lamb joining wine, beef, coal, barley and timber on the unofficial hit list and wheat and cotton producers bracing as the trade dispute worsens.
Opinion
As Australia’s relationship with an increasingly assertive China goes from bad to worse and exporters are increasingly frozen out, Tony Walker asks if the Morrison Government has a game plan or is simply stumbling from one crisis to the next.
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Wine, coal, barley, lobsters and timber have been targeted in recent months, but it’s iron ore exports to China that should be the main concern for Australia’s economy. And that should prompt a focus on alternatives to underpin future prosperity, argue Rod Tyers and Yixiao Zhou.
Trade Minister Simon Birmingham is leaving the door open to taking China to the World Trade Organisation over barriers to Australian goods.
Adelaide have elected against matching St Kilda’s monster AFL offer for Brad Crouch and the midfielder has become a Saints player.
St Kilda have submitted their AFL free agency offer for Adelaide midfielder Brad Crouch.
South Australian lobsters are among those that have been stranded on the tarmac in China, sparking concerns the lucrative shellfish could be the next target of Chinese trade sanctions.
