Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

There are multiple investment treaties with multiple governments. Firstly, we will have a look at who we think will be most receptive to moving as quickly as possible in relation to updating those bilateral investment treaties, and we'll get work underway with them and conclude it as quickly as we can with those governments. Other governments may take longer to agree to commence those negotiations, which is why we expect it will take a few years. It's not a long process that takes a number of years for anything to be concluded. During that time we would be striving to conclude agreements along the pathway of those few years.