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The lines of Australia’s response to post-1956 trade developments had been set as far back as 1932, following the success of the Australian negotiators at the Ottawa Conference. The Department of Trade, the successor to these negotiators, wholly endorsed the approach taken at Ottawa and were convinced that such an approach would continue to pay dividends for years to come, thereby placing Australian trade policy within an Ottawa time warp that was ultimately to prove quite sterile. John McEwen, the Minister for Trade, believed that the tried technique of bartering trade preferences was still the answer in 1956 to all Australia’s trading problems.
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Quoted in J. G. Crawford, Australian Trade Policy, 1942–1966 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968) pp. 574–5. Also, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Overseas Trade, 1956–7, Bulletin No. 54, p. 539.
J. D. B. Miller, The EEC and Australia (Canberra: Nelson, 1976) p. 78.
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O’Brien, J.B. (2001). The Australian Department of Trade and the EEC, 1956–61. In: May, A. (eds) Britain, the Commonwealth and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523906_4
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