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On trade, Trump is the new Menzies

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

22 June 2019

9:00 AM

Our federal election is over but the US-China trade war rolls on. Overnight Donald Trump offered some free advice to Australia on how we should play things from here:

‘I am a protectionist!’, the US President tweeted. ‘I don’t think that the history of Australia could have been what it has been without the great industrial enterprises, the great basic industries, the great factories of Australia.

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