Trade Mission Calendar

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:24): My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. When will the minister publicly release the government's trade mission calendar?

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (14:24): I thank the honourable member for her ongoing interest in trade and exports, and growing our state's economy. It didn't grow quite so well when her party was in power but, nonetheless, business confidence is at an all-time high and the economy keeps going from strength to strength. We are just finalising the final details of next year's trade mission calendar. As members would know, we are also undertaking a review of international engagement, being led by the Hon. Steven Joyce, former treasurer and minister for economic development from New Zealand. While we will be publishing a trade mission calendar—

The Hon. C.M. Scriven: When? That's the question: when?

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY: In the near future, and we will be giving businesses plenty of time to engage in those trade missions. It is interesting to look at some of the past trade missions and the actual activities from them but, nonetheless, we will be doing that in the near future. Of course, the review will give us an opportunity to look—once that has been handed down and handed to the government—at the whole program for quite some period of time ahead of that. But we will be releasing our trade mission calendar, both inbound and outbound, in the near future for next year.