This year, 10 Tasmanian companies participated in the 2024 Land Forces exposition. Were any of those companies provided with financial or in‑kind support by the Tasmanian Government in order to attend? If so, could you detail who received what?
Minister, as you know the Greens have been quite critical of the Tasmanian Government for being too heavily reliant on trade with China.
How do you reconcile this with the fact that UTAS's current approach is to wind back its reliance on international students, particularly from mainland China?
As Minister for Trade, can your account for all Tasmanian arms exports or the technology that contributes towards arms?
In this portfolio you have no legislation to administer, attend no cross-jurisdictional meetings as minister and administer no outputs in the Budget.
Today in The Australian they have reported Woolworths has expressed concern at claims that Tasmania's salmon industry certification may not be fit for purpose.
Minister, what's the volume of native forest woodchips that’s exported for all Tasmanian ports over the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date?
I will simply point out to the House that to rely overly heavily on a vindictive regime like the Chinese Government is not in Tasmania's best interests.
Europe is showing the way in terms of looking at sovereign capability as a block. They are also aware of the vulnerabilities of trade markets for many reasons.
At the Australian level we have had a successive number of markets closed off for a number of spurious reasons.