Article 5K2G3 Australia politics live: Biloela father, daughter leave Christmas Island; Australia-UK trade deal to last 15 years

Australia politics live: Biloela father, daughter leave Christmas Island; Australia-UK trade deal to last 15 years

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Morrison and Johnson unveil details of trade deal; Tamil family's lawyer says fight not over. Follow live.

10.03am BST

Scott Morrison was asked how many more people would be able to live in the UK as a result of the deal.

He says it will be demand driven".

Australia will now be moving forward with an agricultural visa as well. That is something I have had a positive view on for some time, and that will provide other opportunities when it comes to the agricultural workforce.

10.01am BST

Bevan Shields of Nine Newspapers asks Boris Johnson if Australia's climate commitment of cutting emissions to 26% by 2030 is sufficient, given the UK's ambition on the issue.

Johnson replies that on the climate change ambitions of Australia, I think that Scott has declared for net to zero by 2050".

But we want to work with Scott, with Australia, on the clean tech solutions. Because I think what we both strongly believes that you can have a green industrial revolution that drives high wage, high skilled jobs. You do both. And that is what we are going to work on together.

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