Andrew robb mp biography sample
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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 ganska 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’
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The day that plunged Australia's climate policy into 10 years of inertia
Ten years ago Andrew Robb arrived at Parliament House intent upon an act of treachery.
No-one was expecting him. Robb was formally on leave from the Parliament undergoing treatment for his severe depression.
But the plan the Liberal MP nursed to himself that morning would not only bring about the political demise of his leader, Malcolm Turnbull, but blow apart Australia's two great parties irrevocably just as they teetered toward consensus on climate change, the most divisive issue of the Australian political century.
They have never again been so close.
A decade later, according to the ABC's Australia Talks National Survey, climate change is a matter of urgent community concern. Eighty-four per cent of respondents said that climate change was real and that action was warranted. When offered a range of 19 issues and asked which were of gravest personal concern, climate change ranked at numbe
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