The Green Party opposes this bill for a number of reasons. The type of economic growth which trade agreements have encouraged to date is not sustainable either in an environmental or a social sense. You've got a very complex range of chapters, so there are very complex trade-offs which impact on Government. In her submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee, law professor Dr Jane Kelsey quoted the Asia-Pacific arm of the International Trade Union Conference and they said of RCEP, and I quote, "the RCEP [will] hinder our efforts to build back better after COVID-19 towards a sustainable, inclusive and resilient world by escalating the division of labour in global supply chains, privatisation of essential services, and the dominance of corporation on our governments. Public services as well as the government's ability to regulate in the interest of [our] people would be weakened. Therefore, the agreement is clearly against our prosperity in future." 