The South Australian (SA) centre-left Labor government will push its trade opportunities from the state’s London office reversing the previous Liberal government’s plan to fund an additional trade office in France.
Changing the former government’s decision will save around $500,000 (US$346,000), a sum the current government says is equivalent to hiring six frontline nurses.
The SA Minister for Trade and Investment, Nick Champion, said on Thursday that given the former Marshall government had not yet hired staff, signed leases, or progressed the opening of the France office, the money allocated would be better spent domestically.
“While Brexit may have changed the UK’s status as a European nation, it didn’t change its geographic location,” he said….