Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

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The speech read as follows

Thank you. The Trans Pacific Partnership was expanded in 2018 to include Great Britain. The purpose of the Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Expansion) Bill 2024 is to make changes to the tariff structure to give effect to that agreement.

The tariff changes create winners and losers, on the balance these tariff changes are neutral for Australia.

For clarity for social media, despite the misleading name, this bill does not expand the TPP.

Legislation to expand the TPP occurred in 2018 and One Nation voted against the measure.

And we will vote against today's bill as well.

One Nation supports fair trade not free trade.

We oppose globalism in all it's forms. The Australian Government should direct all their energies to encouraging all Australians, those who were here first and those all who are here now, to lift themselves up through their own hard work and enterprise.

Instead successive governments have pursued a global agenda that reduces Australian sovereignty, introduces multiple layers of complexity to industries in a way that reduces enterprise, not encourages it.

The outcome is reduced wealth and reduced opportunity.

We have one flag, we are one community, we are one sovereign nation.