Trade Minister Don Farrell cancelled his holiday to try to save the EU free trade deal but the bloc won’t budge and Australia won’t agree to their terms.
Trade Minister Don Farrell has rejected the European Union’s trade deal proposal, declaring the political bloc must offer greater market access to Australian farmers, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared he would not sign anything that was not in the national interest.
Albanese will discuss the agreement with Macron on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, on Wednesday. Australian farmers argue that “thinning” of vegetation in certain areas, such as mulga country in Queensland, to expand livestock grazing, should not be deemed deforestation.
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