{"id":7903,"date":"2019-08-28T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/australia-should-delay-free-trade-deal-with-hong-kong-actu-says"},"modified":"2019-08-28T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T18:00:23","slug":"australia-should-delay-free-trade-deal-with-hong-kong-actu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7903","title":{"rendered":"Australia should delay free trade deal with Hong Kong, ACTU says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra must tread cautiously amid the political instability, the peak union body tells a parliamentary committee<\/p>\n<p>The peak union body has urged the Morrison government to delay ratifying a free trade deal with Hong Kong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/hong-kong-protests-dozens-arrested-as-government-warns-of-very-dangerous-situation\">amid human rights abuses and a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/australia-should-delay-free-trade-deal-with-hong-kong-actu-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra must tread cautiously amid the political instability, the peak union body tells a parliamentary committeeThe peak union body has urged the Morrison government to delay ratifying a free trade deal with Hong Kong amid human rights abuses and a v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,324,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-hong-kong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}