Sam Dastyari (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

'Chocolate' is 'chokore-to'! To our Spanish-speaking friends we say 'feliz navidad'. Now we are all going to have Feliz Navidad stuck in our heads for the rest of the evening! I do want to wish them a merry Christmas and a happy new year. To the New Zealanders, our very close neighbours, who would be part of any future trading bloc, I say, 'Merry Christmas, bro!'

I want to note that there are a few other nations that we are looking at engaging in trade agreements with in the coming years. There is talk of the ASEAN+6 countries, and it looks like the Koreans will be signing up to that. To them, I say 'jeulgaeun krismas doeseyo', which is an incredibly botched way of saying it!

To the Filipinos, I say 'maligayang pasko'; to the Indonesians, 'selamat natal'; to the Thais, 'souksaan wan Christmas'; to the Laotians, 'merry van khrid samad'; to the Burmese, 'Christmas nay hma mue pyaw pa'; to the Cambodians, 'rik reay bon noel'; to the Indians, 'krismas mubarak'; to our Italian friends, 'buon natale'; to the Dutch, 'vrolijk kerstfeest'—these are getting worse and worse, Mr Acting Deputy President!