Dave Sharma (Wentworth, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Report 192: Military Training—Singapore; Digital Economy Agreement—Singapore.

Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with standing order 39(e).

by leave—This report covers two proposed treaty actions with Singapore—the agreement between the government of Australia and the government of the Republic of Singapore concerning military training and training area development in Australia, and the Australia-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement. The military training agreement will provide Singapore with training facilities larger than those available in Singapore, and it will also provide significant investment in regions of Queensland that rely heavily on tourism and have consequently suffered during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed Australia-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement will amend the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement signed in 2003 by replacing SAFTA's current chapter 14, on electronic commerce, with a new chapter. The committee recommends that binding treaty action be taken on both agreements. I commend the report to the House.