Senate debates
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Questions without Notice
International Agreements
2:23 pm
Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Today's paper announced the government's intention to introduce legislation to unwind new and existing agreements between foreign powers and state governments, local councils and/or universities when they're not in the national interest, giving this power to the foreign affairs minister. The Australian people have seen our current Prime Minister approve the sale of Australia's largest dairy farm, Moon Lake in Tasmania, to the Chinese when he was the Treasurer. Also, the former trade minister Andrew Robb is now working for the Chinese company Landbridge, which has bought the port of Darwin on a 99-year lease. How do you intend to instil confidence in the Australian people and myself that the national interest will come before possible self-interest and all the United Nations and free trade agreements?
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