❓ WA Premier Carpenter outlines the significant growth in trade between Western Australia and India, highlighting key sectors and future opportunities, while also noting the uranium export policy.
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INDIA - TRADING RELATIONSHIP WITH WESTERN AUSTRALIA
I commend the Premier for forging such a strong relationship with our neighbour India, including opening the Western Australian trade office there in 2006. What is the current status of our growing strong trade relationship with India? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
I commend the Premier for forging such a strong relationship with our neighbour India, including opening the Western Australian trade office there in 2006. What is the current status of our growing strong trade relationship with India? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question. Today is a very important day for India because 15 August marks Indian Independence Day and today is the sixtieth anniversary of India’s emergence as an independent nation. I congratulate India. India is a living miracle and those members who have visited India in one capacity or another know what I mean. The emergence of India as an economic force in the world is phenomenal and is producing great benefit for Western Australia. In February this year I went to India with a trade investment mission that was educative for me and very successful and I enjoyed the opportunity. There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question. Today is a very important day for India because 15 August marks Indian Independence Day and today is the sixtieth anniversary of India’s emergence as an independent nation. I congratulate India. India is a living miracle and those members who have visited India in one capacity or another know what I mean. The emergence of India as an economic force in the world is phenomenal and is producing great benefit for Western Australia. In February this year I went to India with a trade investment mission that was educative for me and very successful and I enjoyed the opportunity. There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question. Today is a very important day for India because 15 August marks Indian Independence Day and today is the sixtieth anniversary of India’s emergence as an independent nation. I congratulate India. India is a living miracle and those members who have visited India in one capacity or another know what I mean. The emergence of India as an economic force in the world is phenomenal and is producing great benefit for Western Australia. In February this year I went to India with a trade investment mission that was educative for me and very successful and I enjoyed the opportunity. There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
India is a living miracle and those members who have visited India in one capacity or another know what I mean. The emergence of India as an economic force in the world is phenomenal and is producing great benefit for Western Australia. In February this year I went to India with a trade investment mission that was educative for me and very successful and I enjoyed the opportunity. There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question. Today is a very important day for India because 15 August marks Indian Independence Day and today is the sixtieth anniversary of India’s emergence as an independent nation. I congratulate India. India is a living miracle and those members who have visited India in one capacity or another know what I mean. The emergence of India as an economic force in the world is phenomenal and is producing great benefit for Western Australia. In February this year I went to India with a trade investment mission that was educative for me and very successful and I enjoyed the opportunity. There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question. Today is a very important day for India because 15 August marks Indian Independence Day and today is the sixtieth anniversary of India’s emergence as an independent nation. I congratulate India. India is a living miracle and those members who have visited India in one capacity or another know what I mean. The emergence of India as an economic force in the world is phenomenal and is producing great benefit for Western Australia. In February this year I went to India with a trade investment mission that was educative for me and very successful and I enjoyed the opportunity. There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
India is a living miracle and those members who have visited India in one capacity or another know what I mean. The emergence of India as an economic force in the world is phenomenal and is producing great benefit for Western Australia. In February this year I went to India with a trade investment mission that was educative for me and very successful and I enjoyed the opportunity. There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
There are many possibilities to grow Western Australia’s trade relationship with India. India is and has been for some time the world’s second fastest growing economy, particularly in resources and education. The opportunities between universities and other higher education providers in India, where there are millions of brilliant people and great institutions, and institutions in Western Australia are profound in agriculture, technology and other trade areas. There is a growing Indian interest in Western Australia’s resource industry at every level, particularly iron ore, liquefied natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, and of course the ammonia plant development on the Burrup Peninsula. The figures are quite remarkable when we consider the trade between Western Australia and India. Western Australia’s trade relationship with India has grown significantly since 2001 when India was ranked as WA’s twenty-third most significant trading partner. I am advised - I am startled by the figures - that India has now become WA’s third largest trading partner behind China and Japan. In 2001-02, two-way trade between WA and India was around $353 million. It is now $5.78 billion - about a 1 500 per cent increase on that figure in the space of six years. Members will therefore see that growth in India is phenomenal and that the benefit accruing to WA is tremendous. Western Australia accounts for just over half of Australia’s total trade with India; that is up from 10 per cent in 2001-02. The main export to India is gold, which accounts for more than 80 per cent of exports, with wool, copper and other ores also exported. Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
Speaking of other ores, I will not dwell on the matter, but I note the development from the federal government on uranium exports. Irrespective of the view on the wisdom of exporting uranium to India, which I understand is not a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, whilst we are in government and whilst I am the Premier obviously no uranium will go to India. Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
Before I sit down, I want to report to the Parliament that on 1 August this year I hosted a meeting with Rahul Gandhi, who is the son of Sonia Gandhi and the late Rajiv Gandhi. In 2004 he was elected to the national Indian Parliament. He made a very low-key but very interesting visit to Western Australia and other parts of Australia. He is a young man who was educated largely in England, and I think he is obviously destined to become one of his nation’s leaders in the future. The very fact that he came to Western Australia to discuss in an hour and a half’s meeting what he described as a huge range of issues, and to spend some time here, indicates the significance that India, the Congress Party and obviously the Gandhi family and their supporters place on the relationship that has developed between Western Australia and India. It will produce a great bilateral benefit for Australia, obviously a great benefit to Western Australia for the future, and is a development that we should all welcome.
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