Australia should delay free trade deal with Hong Kong, ACTU says
Canberra must tread cautiously amid the political instability, the peak union body tells a parliamentary committee
The peak union body has urged the Morrison government to delay ratifying a free trade deal with Hong Kong amid human rights abuses and a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
A joint federal parliamentary committee has been examining the merits of free trade deals Australia has signed with Hong Kong and Indonesia, at hearings across the country this week.