PoliticsNow: Penny Wong eyes reset in China relations with visit to Beijing
The Foreign Minister's trip to Beijing on Wednesday follows years of strained diplomatic relations, inflamed by China’s trade bans on $20bn in Australian exports.
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Free market path to lift Indigenous
Labor has handed its new tsar for Aboriginal business extraordinary powers that could make remote-community residents the owners of defence infrastructure and the funders of energy projects.
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Call for origin labels on imported timber
About a quarter of timber tested in Australia last year had incorrect species or origin labels. The industry wants new laws to prevent it happening and to support Australian producers.
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