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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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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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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The pace of our export growth has already slowed significantly, and will slow further if global demand remains suppressed,