Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

I am delighted to receive this question from the member for Page, who is a great practical environmentalist. He is somebody who is a tremendous local advocate for clean air and clean water and also a real advocate and fighter for jobs in his electorate and across New South Wales more generally. Both of these things come together in the China free trade agreement.

As members know, China has enormous air quality and water quality challenges. The great task of bringing hundreds of millions of people out of poverty comes with it challenges and pressures to do with air quality, water quality, land quality and pollutants. These are real issues that affect hundreds of millions of lives. That is why the Chinese energy efficiency, water quality and air quality market is, on the best advice that we have, worth up to a trillion dollars a year.

Mr Champion interjecting—

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