Ryan Bridge: Our free trade ideology is under threat

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 29, 2025 · 2m · transcript

You know how we're a free trade country?

It’s our thing.

We export, we earn, we sell, we get richer.

And we want open supply chains and free movement of goods across borders, etc., etc.

Well, today Trump and Xi of China are finally signing that deal—or at least the framework of a deal—to bring an end to this war.

This should, in theory, benefit both of them. The region. And us. That's a good thing.

We're also likely to sell our dairy consumer brands to the French today, in a deal worth $4 billion. That's a good thing.

Yesterday, Westpac released some research—they reckon our GDP wasn’t…