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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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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I've seen the reports and, yes, our consular officials from Cairo are currently seeking to confirm those reports and to provide consular assistance to the Australian women, but there are not too many more details available,
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enormous opportunities to Australian companies interested in profiting in the world's largest and most dynamic economy.
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There's still a lot of work to be done.
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Our expectations are that that (EU tariff cut) figure needs to be well above 54 percent. It's a positive move in the right direction but still not enough.
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We now know that Mark Latham would have threatened our national security and our future.
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France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,
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I don't believe the meeting should be postponed, even if the EU does not put forward a better proposal, ... I believe that the EU and France would need to account for their actions before the parliament of world opinion.
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Certainly (arbitration) is the other avenue of pursuit open to us (but) I believe that through the current process we will achieve a satisfactory outcome,
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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 wouldn't necessarily say it's a political gift,