Andrew robb mp biography of donald

Speech by the Hon Andrew Robb AO MP, Minister for Trade and Investment titled "US-Australia: The Alliance in an emerging asia, Alliance 21."

If you think of the US-Australia relationship, most people probably think first of all about our how we fought side by side in the Pacific after Pearl Harbor.

Later codified through the ANZUS alliance – our military and strategic cooperation remains a vital feature of the US-Australia relationship today.  

And will do so for many, many decades to come.  

But there’s another vital strut to the US-Australia relationship, that’s often underappreciated – our major trade and investment ties.  

Today, the USA is the largest investor in Australia, and Australia is the twelfth largest provider of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States. The United States is one of the top five source countries for visitors to Australia in terms of numbers and expenditure.  

But our economic relationship has a very long history. 

Right back almost as far as the earliest days of European settlement of Australia, Americans have been involved in the economic development of Australia.  

Fittingly enough, the links probably began with a place in America that was small yet had a u

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Special Envoy for Trade Andrew Robb has left a lasting impression on Australian trade

The Weekly Times
Natalie Kotsios
March 2016

ARGUABLY, Australia’s most recent past trade and investment minister has disproved his own career advice.

After just 2½ years in the role, there’s no doubt Andrew Robb has left a lasting impression on Australian trade.

The CV of his tenure is well-known, but worth repeating: free-trade deals clinched with Korea, Japan and China; the controversial 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership finally negotiated; agricultural subsidies axed between World Trade Organisation nations.

It’s a list most governments could – and did – only dream of; many were long-sought deals never quite done, never quite won, despite years of persistence. The hyperbole that followed, then, seemed well-founded: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declared Robb Australia’s “most successful trade minister in our history”; former trade minister Warren Truss said he “stood in awe” of Robb’s achievements; while Public Affairs Asia named him policymaker of the year for 2015.

That last one almost brings a blush to the cheek of the 65-year-old – before he deflects the attention. “I was surprised to start with but it was a good reflection of all the people involved,” Robb says in his Par

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When pills clogged working, Saint Robb looked to witchcraft mushroom therapy

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