Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On the back of last week's announcement that this government has helped business create one million jobs since 2013, last week I met with a great small business called Geoscan in my electorate of Swan with the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash, to talk about the coalition government's support for small business. Geoscan is just around the corner from the office of EMRC—and there are some people from EMRC in the gallery today. Welcome along. Geoscan specialises in the scanning, analysis and interpretation of drill core, rock chips and other geological samples for the mining, oil and gas, geothermal and geotechnical industries. It is based in Perth and has three offices across the Americas. In 2017, the company entered into a technology alliance with CSIRO that will deliver a coordinated road map for future developments of HyLogger, the automated infra-red core-logging system, and TSG, the hyperspectral IR processing software.

Neil Goodey is the Managing Director of Geoscan. Neil has over 20 years of experience in this field and, as a result, has samples freighted from all over the world to be tested and analysed. The coalition government's 2018 budget includes initiatives that will help small businesses like Geoscan grow and create jobs, and businesses like Geoscan have taken to these initiatives like moths to a flame. I'd like to thank Neil Goodey and the team at Geoscan for their hospitality and the invitation for the minister and me to visit the business. It is businesses like Neil's that are the backbone of the one million jobs we have created since 2013.