Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

It's not only what she has been doing in the Pacific and the Asian region but what she has been doing in terms of China. I might remind you that two days before Christmas, when most of us would have been spending time with our families preparing for Christmas Day, Senator Wong flew up to China to meet again with her equivalent. That meeting was the precursor to a meeting that I had a couple of weeks ago with my equivalent to try to stabilise and normalise the relationship with China. There's nothing I've heard that would suggest anything other than that this process of stabilisation is well on its way. You may read everything in the Chinese newspapers, but I hear and believe all of those things—