Mark Vaile
Mark Vaile
Mark Anthony James Vaile AOis a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and former leader of the National Party of Australia. Vaile is currently a non-executive director of a number of public listed corporations...
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As authority is transferred back to an Iraqi administration in mid-2004, the reconstruction of vital oil installations will provide jobs, skills and technology to the Iraq people.
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The failure of the EU to make a meaningful offer on agricultural market access is deeply disappointing. Those EU member states who talk up their contribution to development are now blocking the most significant steps the global community could take in years to create new opportunities for the world's poorest countries.
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I'm not as optimistic as I was, but it's not all over. The parties are still talking,
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Australian service suppliers and investors in sectors such as legal, financial and professional services, telecoms, education and environmental services will be the main beneficiaries of the FTA,
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The EU are the ones putting the development round under threat, and developing countries will suffer most,
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With only seven weeks left until the Hong Kong ministerial conference in December, we have just about run out of time, ... If Hong Kong fails there is little chance of completing negotiations in 2006, putting the future of multilateral trade reform at serious risk for the short term.
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This research demonstrates that during the decade in which APEC economies lowered trade and investment barriers, 195 million jobs were created and around 165 million people in the region have been lifted out of poverty,
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The reconstruction contract will result in significant export income (for Australia) and a number of employment opportunities in Iraq and Australia,
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We cannot continue to baulk at making commitments because we want someone else to move first. All areas of the negotiations need to move forward together.
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We welcome this announcement, ... The Australian government has announced a judicial inquiry on this matter and it is common sense to let that process run its course.
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We now know that Mark Latham would have threatened our national security and our future.
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The pace of our export growth has already slowed significantly, and will slow further if global demand remains suppressed,
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There are many hundreds of millions of people across the world living in poverty-stricken countries who are looking to us to improve their opportunities by negotiating better market access.
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We wouldn't necessarily say it's a political gift,