TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS

Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (15:20): My question is again to the Minister for Transport. Will the 2007-08 financial accounts for the Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, as audited by the Auditor-General, be presented to parliament prior to the next budget being handed down?

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Energy) (15:20): The timing of that is for the Auditor-General. I would hope so, but can I just point out to the member for Morphett that he should just stop and think to ask the question through the Speaker, like your deputy leader said three times, three in a row. Do you know what it means? Third person: do you know what that is? That is entirely in the hands of the Auditor-General, not mine.

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: I cannot table what the Auditor-General does not give me.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: I have this thing that the Leader of the Opposition does not have. I want to table a genuine document. I do not want to make my own Auditor-General's report, I want to table the one he makes, so I am going to wait for that.