George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The point I was trying to make to Senator Polley is that nothing went wrong in Lima; everything went right, because it gave Australia and it gave the leader of Australia the opportunity for long discussions with the President of the United States, with Xi Jinping, with Shinzo Abe, with Justin Trudeau and with other world leaders in our region and in the Pacific basin and gave them the opportunity to reaffirm their commitment to free trade, to reaffirm their commitment to the greater integration of their national economies and—notwithstanding observations that have come from the President-Elect of the United States of America about the TPP—to reaffirm their interest in and commitment to entering into a trans-Pacific free trade arrangement or agreement of some kind and to continue to prosecute those negotiations. So, it was a fine old time in Lima. (Time expired)