The official Australia-China free-trade agreement webpage has been removed and its contents are currently 'under review until further notice' after the Australian election.
Is this an ominous sign of dark days ahead for the much-talked-about trade deal with the nation that has recently replaced the United States as Australia's biggest trading partner?
Australia's newly elected prime minister, Kevin Rudd, is committed to the trade deal, which was launched in 2004 by John Howard, the man he beat in Saturday's election. But that's not the issue.
The problem will come when the 76-member Senate is asked to approve the deal. The upper chamber in parliament has the power to reject bills passed by the lower house, the 150-member House of Representatives.
While Mr Rudd won control of the House of Representatives, his party failed to gain command of the Senate. Instead, from July 1 next year - the date on which new senators begin their term - it will be a coalition, with Australian Greens and populist independent senators holding the balance of power.
The Greens don't like free-trade deals, unless they are liberally sprinkled with enforceable clauses about environmental and human rights protections - which, of course, the vast majority are not. And they regularly lambast Beijing over such issues.
The other two senators who would be needed by the Rudd administration to say 'yes' to any legislation giving rise to a free-trade deal are also no pushover. One hails from the home of the Australian car industry, which might be adversely affected by such a deal; the other has strong views on China, particularly in relation to religious persecution.