Ministerial Statement

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN VISITOR AND TRAVEL CENTRE

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Urban Development, Planning and the City of Adelaide, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Food Marketing) (16:33): I wish to make a brief ministerial statement. In answer to a question today regarding the question of tenders for the tourism licence, I have seen a copy of the rush from Hansard which says:

I do know of reports, allegedly from the RAA, that they were a tenderer, and an unsuccessful one; whether that is true or not I do not know.

I wish to make it clear to the house that, lest the word 'allegedly' be misconceived, I do know of a report from the RAA, because they wrote stating that they had been a tenderer, and an unsuccessful one. My answer was intended to convey that I had been told that they were a tenderer, by them, but I do not know from examination of the tender documents whether that is the case or not.