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Today’s must-reads:
• Australia-EU trade talks break down
• Iron ore industry looks to reinvention
• Queensland towns evacuated due to wildfires
Australia walked away for the second time in three months from talks with the European Union toward a free trade deal. “We’ve not been able to make progress,” Australia’s Trade Minister Don Farrell said yesterday from Osaka. Australia was pushing for greater access to the European market for its beef, mutton and sugar, while Brussels wants an end to the use of certain geographic locators on products such as Prosecco and feta.
