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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Business and Investor Delegations</name>
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          <heading>Business and Investor Delegations</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr WHETSTONE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Chaffey</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Business and Investor Delegations</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-09-17T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="4339" referenceid="578eb1a82ef14e8ab4261939b72f9549" uid="4356d49788644ce5afbd2dd3940be034">Mr WHETSTONE (Chaffey)  </by>(25 June 2025).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. J.K. SZAKACS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Cheltenham</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Trade and Investment</name>
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            <name>Minister for Local Government</name>
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            <name>Minister for Veterans' Affairs</name>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Business and Investor Delegations</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5571" referenceid="211fedb0b8c24354b29ce9c0acb17416" uid="38aaf9c0a0394f468a7ad0e1077ccf6a">The Hon. J.K. SZAKACS (Cheltenham—Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Local Government, Minister for Veterans' Affairs):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>In 2024-25, the Department of State Development hosted 83 inbound missions across international, trade and investment. Outcomes included:</inserted>
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            <inserted>A $40 million over five years memorandum of understanding between a South Australian seafood business and China Eastern Airlines.</inserted>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0002760">
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            <inserted>A $1.4 million investment made to support South Australian medical research.</inserted>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0002761">
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            <inserted>Over $430,000 of export orders the department is aware of.</inserted>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0002762">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Nine inbound buyers committing to importing one new South Australian wine brand within the next 12 months.</inserted>
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            <inserted>Two other significant investment outcomes are confirmed, though commercial-in-confidence, while several discussions are still occurring as a result of Invest SA events held around the 2023 and 2024 Gather Rounds.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Since July 2024, 33 outbound business missions have been delivered to the priority markets of Germany, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China, India, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and the United States across key sectors including food and wine, space, creative industries, energy and mining and critical technologies. A total of 366 businesses participated in these missions and over $110.1 million in export deals have been reported to the department in the 2024-25 financial year.</inserted>
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