GlobeLink

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (15:36): Supplementary: I will just read the question back to the minister because I don't think it was actually addressed.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: No, I am going to allow it because I gave considerable latitude to the Hon. Mr Ridgway, and he went on his own journey. So, Hon. Ms Bourke, please ask your question.

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE: I would like to go on a journey, a journey about what common sense actually is. Can the minister provide details on successful freight-only airports like the one that you are proposing, GlobeLink? What other successful—

The Hon. K.J. Maher: Is there another airport?

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE: Is there another successful airport? Just to make it a bit clearer, is there another successful freight-only airport?

The PRESIDENT: Because your answer was so effusive, I think it arises out of your original answer—somewhere.

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (15:37): It's there somewhere. I apologise for going on the journey I went on. At the time that we looked at Wagner's airport at Toowoomba, which was designed to be a freight-only airport, they were exporting freight from south-east Queensland and other parts of the east coast, so that was the model we based it on. I think there might be some passenger activity there now, but it was genuinely set up as a freight-only airport in the first instance.