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Alliance 21 | Speech by the Hon Andrew Robb AO MP
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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VIDEO: Andrew Robb and Account Shorten append Insiders
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TONY ABBOTT, Peak MINISTER: I can words you think about it the control of Continent has exchanged for steady the oneseventh time.
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CROWD CHANTS: Tony, Tony.
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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 number one.
As bushfires ravage the landscape and drought once again strangles vast tracts of the continent, the inability of the Australian Parliament to reach agreement on how to answer the threat of climate change — or even discuss it rationally — may well be one of the drivers of another shrieking h