and the premier. michael clarke is an expert on australia china relations from the university of technology sydney and i asked him what prime minister albanese s priorities are in china. the key goal certainly on this visit and in the near term is what has been termed stabilisation of the bilateral relationship, so what this means in practice i think is, from the australian perspective, is achieving some short term wins in a way, so further winding back on a number of the efforts of trade coercion and economic coercion that china imposed around three years ago on australia on a range of australian commodities. so that is kind of the short term goal for the prime minister. how much of an impact did those trade tarrifs have on australian economy and businesses? the majority of the trade tariffs really targeted what you might term discretionary items within the bilateral relationship. you know, live lobster exports, the some australian wine industry as well and obviously the