The Free Trade Agreement (hereinafter “FTA”) between Australia and China involves the political sides of both the countries in a high level discussion.On the one side, the first Australian government concern is to preserve the workers’ rights level as currently is and on the other to benefit from the exportation of Australian agricultural products into the Chinese market. The opposition to Tony Abbott, prime minister of Australia, is pushing up the debate with regard to preservation of the national interests in the agreement. In particular, they stressed the fact that without the protection of the labour standards of Australian workers. Moreover, the agricultural sector, strongly affected by the lack of the liberalisation of their products in the FTA with Japan, is now concerned by the possibility that some products, such as sugar and diary shall be left outside the Agreement. The progress in the negotiation between the Chinese authorities and the Abbot government are also fostered by the next G20 meeting in Brisbane. Furthermore, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping is going to take part in a special sitting of the Parliament in Canberra. Any further development is as a consequence expected to take place in the really following weeks. The gLAWcal Team LIBEAC project Friday, 7th November 2014 (Source: The Guardian - Australia)