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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : [Senate Estimates]

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE Proposed additional expenditure, $27,014,000 (Document A) Proposed additional expenditure, $207,000 (Document C) In Attendance Senator Hill, Minister for the Environment Executive Hewitt, Ms Joanna, Deputy Secretary Subprogram 1.1--Interests in North Asia Thomas, Dr Alan, First Assistant Secretary, North Asia Division Richardson, Mr John,
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0002 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : [Senate Estimates]

CHAIR --I declare open this meeting of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee. I welcome the minister and officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The committee has before it the particulars of proposed expenditure for the service of the year ending 30 June 1998, documents A and C,
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0003 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison : [Senate Estimates]

Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0004 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison : [Senate Estimates]

CHAIR --Minister, do you wish to make an opening statement? Senator Hill --No. CHAIR --Are there any questions of a general nature? Senator Hill --Not from me, Mr Chairman. Senator HOGG --No. CHAIR --We will proceed to subprogram
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0005 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison : Subprogram 1.1--Interests in North Asia : [Senate Estimates]

Subprogram 1.1--Interests in North Asia
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0006 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison : Subprogram 1.1--Interests in North Asia : [Senate Estimates]

Senator COOK --Minister, I wonder whether I might ask, through you, the department a couple of questions about their assessment of the economic developments in Korea and Japan. Senator Hill --Economic developments; it sounds fairly broad. Senator COOK --It is fairly broad. We will come to some fairly direct elements of it. Has
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0007 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison : Subprogram 1.2--Interests in South and South-East Asia : [Senate Estimates]

Subprogram 1.2--Interests in South and South-East Asia
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0008 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison : Subprogram 1.2--Interests in South and South-East Asia : [Senate Estimates]

Senator COOK --I read just recently that the prospects of Australia being included in ASEM have been set back further. Is that true? Mr Dauth --It is very difficult to give a precise answer to that question. We have, as you know, encountered opposition over a long period of time to our aspirations
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0009 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison : Subprogram 1.3--Interests in Americas and Europe : [Senate Estimates]

Subprogram 1.3--Interests in Americas and Europe
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0010 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1--International Relations, Trade and Business Liaison : Subprogram 1.3--Interests in Americas and Europe : [Senate Estimates]

Senator COOK --I think quite a significant event occurred--some say a seminal event, leaving aside the descriptors, as Mr Dauth might call them--when the US President, I think this is the right and accurate description, asked that his bill to clothe him with fast track authority for trade negotiation not be presented in the
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0011 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1.4--Interests in South Pacific, Africa and Middle East : [Senate Estimates]

Program 1.4--Interests in South Pacific, Africa and Middle East
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0012 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1.4--Interests in South Pacific, Africa and Middle East : [Senate Estimates]

Senator COOK --Is Richard Butler--and this may not be the appropriate place, but it seems we are talking about the Middle East--still an officer of DFAT? Ms Hewitt --No, he has retired from the service and from DFAT and is employed by the UN. Senator COOK --Do we pay his salary? Is that
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0013 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1.4--Interests in South Pacific, Africa and Middle East : Subprogram 1.5--Multilateral Trade Policy and Negotiations : [Senate Estimates]

Subprogram 1.5--Multilateral Trade Policy and Negotiations
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0014 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1.4--Interests in South Pacific, Africa and Middle East : Subprogram 1.5--Multilateral Trade Policy and Negotiations : [Senate Estimates]

CHAIR --Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I reconvene the meeting of the legislation committee and advise that we are on subprogram 1.5, Multilateral trade policy and negotiations. Senator COOK --Can someone advise me what the status is of the Howe Leather case? Mr Thomson --The status of it is that the United States administration
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0015 - Source: SENATE
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE : Program 1.4--Interests in South Pacific, Africa and Middle East : Subprogram 1.6--Trade strategy development and business liaison : [Senate Estimates]

Subprogram 1.6--Trade strategy development and business liaison
Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_sfa.out/0016 - Source: SENATE

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