Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Again, I thank Senator Williams for that excellent question.

As I said earlier on, access for the Australian market is unprecedented. This historic agreement will give all sectors of the resource and energy industries greater access. We are set to go from strength to strength in relation to these two areas as a result of the removal of these tariffs. Access to the Chinese market, as I said, will provide a huge boost, and on full implementation of this agreement a staggering 99.9 per cent of current exports will be totally tariff free.

This agreement again shows that Australia is open for business. The Australian people only need to look today at who asked what questions about this Chinese FTA. The Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens—negative and carping, refusing to acknowledge— (Time expired)