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Flawed focus drove Doha talks to collapse
The Doha Development Round is in a deep, deep coma. A lot of excuses will be made for a failure to reach agreement. But the real problem is that...
No Doha deal better than a dud one
Free trade remains in Australia's best interests. This week trade ministers descended on Geneva for negotiations to try to break the deadlock in...
A move towards certainty, please
Many reasons have been given for the closure of the Goodyear tyre factory with the loss of 600 jobs. The strong dollar, high oil prices, and poor...
Free trade will help the poor
TV chef Gordon Ramsay is like many other celebrities. They think that because they can sing or dance, or kick a football, or, in Ramsay's case,...
Tariff cuts do more than handouts
Kevin Rudd likes to project himself as the heir of the Hawke-Keating reform agenda. But Bob Hawke and Paul Keating reformed even when it hurt...
Fair trade an unworkable attempt to rig the market
Good intentions used to pave the road to hell. Now they can be found in your coffee cup, and in a host of other ''fair trade'' products. Fair trade...
Not what he says, but what he does
Kevin Rudd should stop his Government's doublespeak on free trade. In his recent address to the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC, he tried...
Next time you sip a latte, look beyond the feel-good choice
Just how fair is fair trade? Mass market retailers from Safeway to Starbucks now sell us coffee that is supposed to quench our thirst and appease...