Arthur Sinodinos (NSW, Liberal Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

The National Party are great supporters—I will take that interjection—of free trade because they know the benefits to our rural and regional areas and to the Australian bush, and they are doing a great job of prosecuting them.

One thing that does stand in the way are people like the CFMEU and others who have sought to wind-up the Labor Party on things like ChAFTA and stop those agreements coming into force. We will continue to prosecute the case for free trade. It is in our interest to do so.