Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

I'm grateful for the question, because it does highlight the fact that on this side of the House we are so absolutely committed to and focused on making sure we open up more export opportunities for Australian businesses. We've done that in a number of ways. We have opened up important markets, export markets, that are helping to power Australia's economic growth and job creation—like China, Japan, Korea and the TPP-11, which the Leader of the Opposition said was a vanity project and a waste of time, and the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, which the Leader of the Opposition called a dud deal. But we continue to open up these opportunities because we know they're good for Australia's businesses. We know the Export behaviour and business performance report showed that Australian export businesses pay their employees more and increase wages at a faster rate.

Ms Butler interjecting—

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