Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. It's an incredibly important question. As he would know, the Australian government has chosen not to enter into a written agreement on the BRI. One thing that he can be absolutely certain of is that we will pursue our national interest, and we will pursue our national interest strongly. There have been reports about China placing restrictions on our exports, and we find these deeply troubling. As a matter of fact, there was another report today about logs being part of these restrictions, and that's going to impact the port of Portland and parts of my electorate—

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