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

Although it is a long and hard road back from a hit the size of this, we are working to share our experiences with the rest of the world. The Prime Minister and other ministers have been actively engaged throughout this time in seeking knowledge and lessons from other parts of the world and also in sharing our experience in successfully suppressing the spread of COVID-19 and our experience in securing employment and businesses wherever we can through the types of responses we've put in place.

The Prime Minister is preparing to participate in the Australia-ASEAN summit, the East Asia Summit and the APEC leaders summit as well as the G20 summit over the next weekend. As well we're playing a leading role in WTO negotiations in the area of fisheries subsidies to ensure the sustainable future of our oceans. As well in e-commerce we're negotiating the first set of global rules on digital trade. This is even more important as we have seen the way that economies and businesses pivoted during this pandemic. It's our leadership that helped us get Australia through and we are working constructively with the world too.