House debates

Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Questions without Notice

Trade with China

3:04 pm

Photo of Christopher PyneChristopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

be included in our new nation. The problem with the CFMEU and the union movement is they do not change their spots, and one would not expect it of a discredited organisation like the CFMEU. But what does surprise me is that they have been allowed to take over the Leader of the Opposition's response to the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, because initially Labor used to be in favour of the China Australia Free Trade Agreement. Labor luminaries across the country from Bob Hawke to Bob Carr are in favour of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, and the Leader of the Opposition used to speak in favour of it. But what changed? The CFMEU yanked the chain.

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