Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm sorry, that's not good enough. You have made an international treaty with 10 other countries, the TPP. If this government has not made a decision on who is going to be on that panel then it is pathetic and this whole treaty needs to be questioned fully. You are saying it's hypothetical. You have put it in there. That's what I heard yesterday: 'It's hypothetical. This may never happen. We've had these agreements for the last 20 or 30 years, we've been challenged only once and that was not successful.' If that is the case then why have we signed up to it, when the New Zealand Prime Minister has written a side letter to say that they are not going to be bound by the ISDS, yet Australia is adamant on having this in? If it's not that important then write a side letter and don't allow any multinational company to sue us in the case that they may be able to.