Andrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

Why are they carrying on in such a nonsensical way? Why have they not asked me one question about the detail of this issue—not one question? If you are so concerned about it, why don't you ask the person who negotiated this agreement about the detail? Why haven't you? I will tell you why.

Opposition members interjecting—

If you shut up, I will tell you why. You want to listen? You want to find out? The reason is that you have not identified one thing in the worker protection area that is not the same as what applied under your government. There is nothing to negotiate, because you have not identified one thing. This has gone through JSCOT. It is going through the Senate inquiry. It has gone through all sorts of intermediaries, all sorts of research groups and others. Every one of them has confirmed that what we did in this deal is identical to what the worker protections were under the Korean deal, the Japanese deal and the Chile deal. All of those things are identical, and you have not laid a glove on this bill. That is why you are carrying on with that nonsensical question.

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