32. The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement and Australian business - with Tamara Oyarce

December 2018 marks three years since the China-Australia Free Trade Agreeement (ChAFTA) entered into force. What is the significance of the agreement? What impact has ChAFTA had on Australian businesses? Has it aided their internationalisation and operation in the Chinese market? Tamara Oyarce, PhD Candidate and Sessional Lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School, joins Simone van Nieuwenhuizen, Project and Research Officer at the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney, to discuss ChAFTA’s importance in the Australia-China economic relationship, some of the controversies surrounding its introduction, and what work should be done to improve it in future.