Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed, Senator Gichuhi, our home state of South Australia had a great night at the export awards last night. This is outstanding news. South Australian businesses were recognised in the category of Australian Exporter of the Year and received the Regional Exporter Award and the e-Commerce Award. South Australian exporter SEAPA jointly won the Exporter of the Year Award with ACT business Aspen Medical. SEAPA specialises in innovative injection-moulded plastic oyster baskets, enabling oyster farmers to grow higher quality oysters at lower cost. They began exporting to North America but today also export into Europe and Asia, a great example of Australian ingenuity, driving export businesses overseas. Torbreck Vintners won the Regional Exporter Award. I expect Senator Wong would look up there—I suspect she enjoys Torbreck's drops. They are great Barossa Valley red wines. It is a fine South Australian business, exporting now to 42 countries across the world. Adelaide business SWEAT, winner of the e-Commerce Award, is the world's largest— (Time expired)