Andrew Nikolic (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I used no unparliamentary term, but if it assists the House, Deputy Speaker, I withdraw. These free trade deals will provide enormous opportunities for Australians in decades to come. They account for 61 per cent of our goods exports and 19 per cent of our services trade. When fully implemented, more than 95 per cent of our exports to China will enter duty-free. The FTA with Korea will see 99.8 per cent of Korea's tariffs eliminated on full implementation, and our FTA with Japan is the first they have signed with a major agricultural exporter, giving 97.5 per cent of our exports duty-free or preferential entry into the world's third-largest economy. So I call on this parliament to get behind the extraordinary benefits of the Asian century in a bipartisan way, and cease this xenophobic campaign. (Time expired)

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