Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Thank you, Minister. So I ask: given that this investor-state dispute settlement is central to the negotiations from both the United States's and Australia's point of view, and given—from what the minister has just said—that there can be no compromise from the Australian position, is the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement now dead in the water unless American big tobacco, big pharmaceuticals and big oil compromise?