Australia and India should be able to sign a win-win free trade agreement by the end of 2015, says Andrew Robb Australia's minister for trade and investment . In an interview with ET, he also talks about the Northern Australia strategy and uranium exports to India. Edited excerpts:We got a lot of work to do, but we are still on track to finish it by the end of this year. The good side is that we are not as ambitious like in the case of some other trade agreements that we have signed. India still has 600 million people living under $2 a day and mostly involved in agriculture.So, there are a lot of sensitivities compared to some other countries on issues such as agriculture. We will have a goods package, which will have some reduction in protection, but it will not be as ambitious.In case of services and on investment, we are finding a lot of common ground. In the future, we will have a stage review of sensitive areas and look if we can fully open up. Our focus has been first and foremost on services and I am sure it will be a very good agreement.India is at a stage of development where it can make very good use of health services, education, engineering services, water management services, project management services and construction services.For example, you have a very young population but still there are 70 million people over 60 years of age, and in the next 15 years this will be around 170 million, which indicates that there is a need for age care. Such service areas will be in demand and we are doing a lot of work to open the doors for health services operations.It is on track to be completed before the end of this year. We have 40% of the world's uranium and India will be in a position starting 2016 to import uranium from here to meet its energy requirements.Northern Australia comprises only 5% of Australia's population yet 40% of our land mass.It is endowed with 17 million hectares of arable soil and accounts for 90% of our nation's gas reserves.We have investment opportunities in sectors such as agribusiness and food, tourism infrastructure, resources and energy.Since Northern Australia is located at the intersection of two great areas of eco nomic and population growth, Asia and the tropics, it presents major opportunities to build upon existing capacity and expertise.We are concerned about the fact that the Adani Group has spent around $3 billion in buying the port and in the approval process and as government we are determined to quickly get to a situation where we can look at the commercial funding of the project.One of the environmental activist groups funded by Greenpeace and others have found a loophole in the legislation, which we feel is not genuine. It is a very big deposit and will light up 100 million homes in India for 100 years. We feel that we have a moral obligation to make that happen. Also, we need to understand that if India cannot get it from Australia it will get from somewhere else.I think Prime Minister Modi has changed the outlook of the country. We could not have been this close to signing the trade agreement if not for his initiative.He has a hostile upper house in your Parliament, but notwithstanding that there has been progress in a lot of areas.(This correspondent is in Australia on the invitation of the Australian government.)