Trade deals have become a lightning rod for voter anger and future pacts need to include more worker protections, Labor says.
The opposition's trade spokesman Jason Clare insists the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead following the election of Donald Trump, with free trade in the US now about as "popular as a snake in a sleeping bag".
"Trade deals aren't the reason people are hurting, but they are a lightning rod for the anger and frustration people are feeling," he writes in the Australian Financial Review on Wednesday.
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