The latest World Trade Organisation talks, aimed at removing agriculture tariffs and opening global trade, broke down on the weekend.
More talks have been scheduled for next month,
Patricia Ranald, a spokeswoman for a lobby group called the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network says the US, the EU and Australia are demanding unreasonable protection for their own agricultural markets, while asking developing countries to reduce tariffs on some of their exports.
“Developing countries are right to say no to what would essentially be a very bad deal. They've also been studies by the World Bank, which show that under the current things that are being offered in this round of negotiations, developing countries would do very badly and most of the benefits would flow to the richer countries and the Australian government should be paying more attention to the needs of developing countries,” Ms Ranald said.