Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. China has contempt for free trade in unapologetically cancelling all our coal exports. Surely hasn't this, and the vanishing of Australia's secondary industries—inter alia glass, appliances, oil refining, underwear, motor vehicles, which are all gone—destroyed what little was left of free market credibility? McEwen's aggressive nationalistic trade policies created the Japanese market, replacing Britain, which vanished into the EU. Haven't the coalminers been the pathfinders in increasing global coal exports by finding the VIP world—Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines? Who needs China?

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