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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-10-17" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Trade Missions</name>
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        <heading>Trade Missions</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Trade Missions</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-10-17T15:14:39" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:14):</by>  A final supplementary: has the minister ever suggested at a Liberal Party fundraiser that businesses contact him or his office about attendance at an overseas trade mission?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Trade</name>
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          <question date="2019-10-17">
            <name>Trade Missions</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-10-17T15:14:53" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (15:14):</by>  At nearly every event I go to, I say that if you want to grow your business—it doesn't matter where it is—</text>
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        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY:</by>  I say it everywhere I go. I spruik what we are doing. I do it everywhere. If I am at Scotch College seeing some of the people where my children went to school, I say that if you have a business, you want to export. I do it at a whole bunch of wineries. I am constantly out spruiking our great state and telling everybody to get on board and help grow our economy.</text>
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