Liberals' China trade demands too simplistic: RichardMarles

"The unfair detention, the lack of transparency in relation to those detained Australians, is completely unacceptable, and we should continue to seize every opportunity to prosecute that case," he said. China has hit Australia with $20 billion in coercive trade bans in recent years. Last week, it lifted the ban on timber imports, worth about $1.6 billion, while barley, wine, seafood, cotton and metal remain proscribed. But Mr Marles said the government was "not about to put conditionality on a visit of that kind" and a prime ministerial visit would be an important part of "stabilising" the fractured relationship. "China…