With India-Australia free trade pact talks gaining pace, representatives from Australia were relieved to find India's key negotiator being replaced after over three years. One of them said the Australian team had "a hard time" carrying on the talks given the "old-school approach" of the negotiator. The new chief negotiator for the India-Australia pact talks has the experience of handling Pakistan for close to five years and will hopefully use his diplomatic chops to good use.


