Government Departments

In reply to Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (24 November 2020). (Estimates Committee B)

The Hon. S.J.R. PATTERSON (Morphett—Member of the Executive Council, Minister for Trade and Investment): I have been advised the following:

Following the Joyce review, DTI undertook an organisational redesign to allow it to prioritise and refocus its efforts on trade and investment activities which will best support the government's 3 per cent growth agenda. A new organisational structure was released in November 2019. The major change to the structure of the department was to create new sections of the department that focused on Joyce review recommendation 9.14 DTTI should continue to have separate investment and trade promotion teams to ensure accountability for performance targets and to reflect the different skillsets required in each group.

The new sections of DTI that have been created since 1 July 2019 are:

Space

Hi-tech

Tourism

Defence

Strategy, Policy and Analytics; and

State Promotions.

The purpose of the individual sector areas and the Strategy, Policy and Analytics team is to meet the Joyce recommendations for separate policy, investment and trade promotion teams organised on similar sectoral lines consistent with the government's economic agenda. The state promotions team's purpose is to meet the Joyce recommendation that DTI is charged with the coordination of state positioning and marketing as it relates to trade and investment.