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Originally Posted by peckstar
Wow your obviously very independent on this. Remind me again who rejected tariffs in May 2013. why its was Fairfax and ABCs love child PM Julia Gillard.
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Probably more old fashioned Country Party than ALP Peckie.
It was actually the dreaded Gough that started winding back tariff protection before the coup.
Yes the road to globalisation means that neither major party, or the ivory tower academics think anything other than outright free trade is thinkable.
Problem is that the rest of the world is busy protecting their industries be it agriculture, manufacturing or knowledge based. We are bust selling ours out.
Maybe time we had a look at what others are doing?