Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

We are defending the free trade agreement with China because that represents more jobs for Australia. The Labor Party is running a covert and, at times, overt campaign against more Australian jobs. Those jobs would flow to businesses such as Flavourtech in the Riverina, where they will see the tariffs on their manufactured food drop from two per cent to zero. Fletcher International Exports, a meat exporter, will see 1,200 new jobs created as part of our free trade agreement with China. Rode microphones will see the tariffs on their products reduced from 10 per cent to zero. They employ more than 200 people in the member for Reid's electorate.

The Labor Party are opposing the free trade agreement with China because they are at the beck and call of their union masters, the CFMEU. Now it is time on both the Adani Carmichael project and the China free trade agreement for the Labor Party to choose between their union mates and the workers— (Time expired)

Mr Hutchinson interjecting—

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