Fed: SWan says FTA kick in the guts for sugar farmers

AAP General News (Australia)
02-09-2004
Fed: SWan says FTA kick in the guts for sugar farmers

Labor says the free trade agreement with the United States amounts to a kick in the
guts for the struggling Queensland sugar industry.

Opposition family services spokesman WAYNE SWAN says canegrowers will feel they've
been abandoned by the HOWARD government after being left out of the deal.

Mr SWAN says the federal government can expect a backlash in Queensland and …