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Trade Minister Don Farrell is making an urgent dash to Brussels to break a deadlock over a free trade deal.
He ended his holidays early to try get the European Union to budge on giving Australian exporters more access to the lucrative market.
It's a high-stakes game trying to save a potentially critical free trade deal.
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Australia has been trying to do a deal with Europe since 2018 — eager to get access to a market of 450 million consumers for our beef, lamb, dairy, rice and sugar.
But it's stalled, with European farm lobbies pushing back.
A delegation of agriculture experts has joined Don Farrell and they're adamant they won't agree to a deal that falls short.
"It's good to see we've got team Australia doing what they need to do, and also that we've got all the officials where they need to be at this critical time," National Farmers Federation vice president David Jochinke said.
"We've very clear that we will not support a deal that does not support Australian farmers and Australian agriculture.
"If farmers aren't getting a benefit, we should pause, delay or even say no."
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to raise the free trade deal with the likes of French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Lithuania this week.
He leaves Australia with the fallout from the damning findings of the Robodebt Royal Commission still raging.
The opposition is resisting calls for the resignation of former prime minister Scott Morrison — last seen on holiday in Italy — after he was condemned for his role in the scheme.
Morrison hit out at the royal commission's scathing findings against him, including that he "allowed cabinet to be misled" over the scheme as a minister.
He was the social services minister who brought the proposal for the debt recovery scheme to cabinet ahead of its implementation in 2015.
In a lengthy statement released a few hours after the report was handed down, Morrison furiously denied any wrongdoing.
"I reject completely each of the findings which are critical of my involvement in authorising the scheme and are adverse to me," he wrote.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud dismissed the calls.
"He's got a contract with the people of Cook. He won the election fair and square. He's the member for Cook," Littleproud told Today.
"If a federal politician is potentially convicted of a crime of more than 12 months in jail, then that's the only time that you can be removed from parliament."
Unnamed individuals have been referred to the Australian Federal Police and the new anti-corruption watchdog for an illegal scheme that's left a trail of victims.
Education Minister Jason Clare, said Scott Morrison and other ministers and bureaucrats "are going to have to live with this on their conscience for the rest of their lives."
One of those top public servants — Kathryn Campbell, former secretary of the department of human services — took leave from her $900,000-a-year role with defence the day before the commissioner made scathing findings against her.
There's now speculation over whether or not she'll return.
