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Richard Alston, minister for Information Technology has defended Australia's ICT trade performance dismissing the Australian Computer Society's highly critical analysis of it as a "superficial and simplistic stunt".
"AIIA members have overwhelmingly supported the pursuit of an FTA with the US," according to the final draft of the Association's submission to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as it "would provide substantial benefits to Australian businesses and the Australian economy".
The new Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, has lashed back at opposition claims that the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) will "harm" Australian software producers.
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