here's a place you can list what you and the country will gain from the trade deal with Japan. so far we are down 1 auto industry and 30,000 jobs (why do you think they let it go ?) any positives listed must contain detail as to how and why there is benefit to ordinary people .. trickle-down is ineligible because its carp.
@spotweldersfriend wrote: We might see a couple of hundred more people working in abattoirs.That's about it as far as beef business goes,as I see it. In the next 3 years there's going to be tens of thousands thrown on the scrap heap when the car industry shuts down.I can't picture those workers in Geelong and Elizabeth working in cheese factories or dairy farms for some reason.
as well as the fact that if they could supply suitable employment by the time everything was up and running they would have been unemployed for too long to have a hope of a job... or indeed too old.
I fail to see how the meat industry after loosing 170 odd million from Russan markets then "gaining " a 104 million market" maybe" over 13 years is a win
Tony Abbott has moved to downplay criticism from Australiaโs farming groups that his new free trade deal with Japan fails to deliver sufficient liberalisation for local food producers.
Amid complaints that the agreement offered very little for dairy, sugar and grain farmers, the prime minister admitted on Tuesday that his government had failed to secure the farm industry's main target of reducing the Japanese beef tariff to zero.
Wow!! that was rather short lived euphoria wasn't it LOL
I was having a coffee with a couple of friends today and one of them mentioned that we sell gas really, really cheaply to Japan & China. Why can't we buy it cheaply here as this is where it comes from?
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