Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Tourism and International Education) Share this | Hansard source

There was an opportunity for me to meet with alumni from Australia and also a number of representatives from Indonesia who had studied here in Australia, and the relationships that that has built and the opportunities to build that bridge between the two nations has been extremely important—

An honourable senator interjecting—

Senator, if you believe that a business trip taking 54 Australian industry players to Indonesia for Australian Business Week is a joke, you ought to give up. This was a very important delegation taken by the Australian government to Indonesia last week to promote Australian business and education into the Indonesian market— (Time expired)