Matt Williams (Hindmarsh, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last Friday, I held a morning tea with the popular Prime Minister. It was attended by representatives of a broad range of community groups, including RSLs, Meals on Wheels, Rotary, Lions, church groups and Probus clubs to name but a few. The morning tea was extremely well represented by leaders from multicultural groups and businesses from Adelaide's Chinese, Indian, Korean, Greek, Italian, Singaporean and Taiwanese communities. I enjoyed speaking with many who attended, and I was impressed to hear the story of Mr Yong Koh, a Singaporean migrant who is the CEO of First Class Australasia, exporters of fresh Australian lobsters and abalone to China and Japan. Mr Koh is no doubt optimistic about the opportunities thanks to the government's free trade agreements.

Jan Smith, from the Glenelg Historical Society, wrote to me saying she 'was impressed by the representation of the multicultural and many-faceted community groups that make up the Hindmarsh community' and by the Prime Minister's genuine interest in the community groups represented.

The morning tea also took the form of a Lunar New Year celebration. It was great to see so many different community groups embrace the celebration and usher in the year of the sheep or goat with the Prime Minister and the Chinese community in particular.

While the Prime Minister was in my electorate, I joined him in a meeting with Mr Jin Liang, chairman of Datong Australia, a high-quality international developer in property, located in Adelaide. It was pleasing to hear of Datong's investment in South Australia and Mr Liang's vision to grow and expand the company, and also their support and commitment to sponsor Adelaide United in the A-League (Time expired)