THE Victorian Farmers Federation will lobby the new senators elected at Saturday’s election to give them a better understanding of the benefits of free trade so they don’t take a protectionist stance, VFF president Peter Tuohey says.
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Mr Tuohey told ABC Radio that Australia had been “held to ransom’ by independent MPs and he hoped the nation would do better with the current batch of micro-parties and independents than the previous lot of cross-bench MPs.
“Having no Palmer United Party will help,” he said.
Mr Tuohey said the VFF would step up its lobbying of new senators such as Derryn Hinch and Pauline Hanson to tell them about the advantages to primary producers of agreements such as the China Free Trade Agreement.
