THE BEGINNING OF THE END? The New Push for Trade Liberalisation in Agriculture Address by Donald McGauchie President, National Farmers' Federation, to the QBE Cairns Group Dinner
3 April 1998
Deputy Prime Minister, your excellencies, honoured guests, my fellow farm leaders, ladies and gentlemen
Maybe once or twice in our lifetimes, if we're very lucky, we experience a great moment in history
This is one of them
Our talks this week, and the informal relationships which have been struck between us, will steel us for the battle which lies ahead
Our Joint Communique, released on Tuesday, provides a blueprint for our unified campaign for further, genuine and transparent trade liberalisation - a battle plan
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3/4/1998 Speech by the Deputy Prime Minister, Leader of the National Party, Minister for Trade The Hon Tim Fischer, MP at the Cairns Group Farm Leaders Dinner Sydney, 3 April 1998