House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
2013-11-26 Daily Xml

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TRADE, INDONESIA

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:53): Can the minister update the house on the government's progress towards achieving its goal of $25 billion of exports by 2013—this year?

The Hon. T.R. KENYON (Newland—Minister for Manufacturing, Innovation and Trade, Minister for Small Business) (14:53): That's exactly what the China and India strategies are designed to do. They are designed to help us lift the exports—

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley is called to order.

The Hon. T.R. KENYON: They are designed to help us reach the goals that we set for ourselves. Sometimes after a setting a substantial goal we don't meet it, but you have to keep pushing at goals. You have to have a plan, you have to have a policy. What we don't see from the opposition is any sort of policy, or any indication of how they intend to go about growing the economy.

The SPEAKER: A third supplementary.