Coalition policy gives manufacturing bosses a seat at trade negotiations, not farmers, unions or other groups
An obscure clause buried in the Liberal-National Coalition’s manufacturing policy says they will ‘appoint at least one industry representative who will be directly included in the negotiation of Free Trade Agreements’. The policy is on p.14 of the Coalition Manufacturing policy released last week. As it was not in the Coalition trade policy, AFTINET only became aware of it today, after we had sent out our comparison of parties’ trade policies.
This is an extraordinary and probably unworkable policy for three reasons.