House debates

Monday, 2 March 2020

Questions without Notice

Alinta Energy

2:31 pm

Photo of Josh FrydenbergJosh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Rankin. As he would be aware, it is the practice of treasurers and Treasury not to comment on specific foreign investment matters, particularly when they involve compliance issues, and Treasury has put out a statement to that effect. What we do know is that this side of the House supports foreign investment and free trade. On this side of the House, we're very proud of the fact that, when we came to government, free trade agreement covered about 26 per cent of our two-way trading relationship and now it's more than 70 per cent, and that one in five Australian jobs are related to trade.

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