REMOTE AREAS ENERGY SUPPLIES SCHEME

Mr TRELOAR (Flinders) (15:01): My question is to the Minister for Tourism. Minister—

The Hon. K.O. Foley interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr TRELOAR: My question is—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Flinders, sit down. Your misbehaving is taking up your question time. The member for Flinders.

Mr TRELOAR: Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question is to the Minister for Tourism. Minister, how do you expect a tourism operator in Coober Pedy to absorb a more than doubling of his annual electricity bill from $320,000 to $700,000 following the government's changes to electricity tariffs?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The Minister for Tourism.

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Food Marketing) (15:02): The question is directed towards an increase in the cost of electricity. We need to bear in mind that the reason for the increase in electricity costs probably has a great deal to do with the fact that our assets were sold some years ago by your colleagues, and—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Finniss will stop holding up and displaying material in the chamber.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Have you finished your response, minister?

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Yes.

The SPEAKER: The member for Flinders.