The second largest state signed up to the Belt and Road Initiative and the federal government had to introduce laws to ban it

Incidentally a year before that the federal government tried to sign a cooperation agreement on BRI and keep it a secret

The Turnbull government has refused to release an agreement it signed with China covering the controversial “Belt and Road Initiative” infrastructure program on the grounds Beijing does not want it made public.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has refused to release the agreement under the Freedom of Information Act.