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Adam Spencer: Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Adam Spencer and I'm thrilled to be your
MC here this evening. As I look around this room I'm aware that some of you are here for
the very first time. Some of you are seasoned veterans of this most special occasion but,
regardless, you are all united by your belief in the achievements of the ongoing potential
of Australian industry to reach out to the world, create new markets and create wealth.
Hon. Andrew Robb: Between the finalists you employ 41,000 people, you collectively have
generated more than $3.1 billion in export sales over the last year, and it's a remarkable
performance for which you deserve the highest praise.
Male Announcer: And the winner is Australian Agricultural Company.
Female Announcer: The winner is Cardno.
Male Announcer: The winner of this category is The Creature Technology Company.
[APPLAUSE]
Adam Spencer: How did you feel when you saw your creations skate across the ice into the
stadium of the opening of the Sochi Olympic Ceremony?
Tim Rolfe: Relieved, to be honest.
[LAUGHTER]
Adam Spencer: Relieved. [LAUGHS]
Tim Rolfe: 'Cause it's a very big stage to be on. They estimate -- the IOC estimated
an audience of three billion for that particular coverage, so we were very, very relieved when
they worked so admirably well.
Male Announcer: I'm glad to announce that the winner is Charles Darwin University.
[APPLAUSE]
Male Announcer: I'm very pleased to announce that the winner is TTG Transportation Technology.
[APPLAUSE]
Male Announcer: The winner of the ICT award is Opmantek.
Adam Spencer: Every six minutes somewhere in the world a new organisation is taking
on one of your products. That's an amazing rate of take-up.
Danny Maher: Yeah, it's been an outstanding rate of growth and it's something very hard
to cope with actually as a CEO when the company is changing so fast, and in fact the last
quarter it's been every four minutes, so... A year ago it was once every four hours and
we were happy with that, so it's incredible.
Male Announcer: It's a great privilege to announce the winner as SDI Limited.
Male Announcer: On behalf of the Australian Made campaign to announce that GP Graders...
Male Announcer: And the winner is Halfbrick.
Adam Spencer: How does it feel to know you have made such a massive contribution to world
inactivity and procrastination?
[LAUGHTER]
I mean if it wasn't for Fruit Ninja we would probably have cured cancer by now.
[LAUGHTER]
You do provide a crucial social role for people, don't you?
Aidan Millot: I like to think of it as like I'm just continuing the generations, so I
wasted and procrastinated my university playing games; now I'm doing it for others.
Female Announcer: And the winner is Bega Cheese.
Male Announcer: The winner is Turbosmart.
Male Announcer: The winner is Blast Movement Technologies.
Male Announcer: It�s a great honour for me to announce GP Graders as the winner.
[APPLAUSE]
Stuart Payne: This is a, yeah, such a distinction. We spend a lot of time doing what we do, flying
around the world and it's in our blood. To get this sort of recognition is humbling but
it's the result of having wonderful people, having a great environment, having a very
innovative company, a very flat structure and giving a lot of our staff a lot of input
into what we develop in very close liaison with the customer.
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