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‘Buy Australian’ is a start. But this union has bigger plans to fight Trump

Ronald Mizen

Taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects would be forced to buy local steel and aluminium under a plan a union aligned to Treasurer Jim Chalmers is calling on federal Labor to adopt.

The powerful Australian Workers Union is demanding a package of policies be included in Tuesday’s federal budget to force taxpayer-funded works to have quotas for local materials, and for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to do more to shield manufacturers from Donald Trump’s trade wars.

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Ronald Mizen is the Financial Review’s political correspondent, reporting from the press gallery at Parliament House, Canberra. Connect with Ronald on Twitter. Email Ronald at ronald.mizen@afr.com

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