BURNSIDE COUNCIL

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:36): My question is again for the Attorney-General. Will the Attorney-General confirm that any crown advice he received on the Burnside council inquiry was only by way of casual conversation and not formally sought or provided as advice in writing? Yesterday I asked the Attorney-General a question about when he had sought and received such advice and his answer referred only to conversations he had had.

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) (14:37): I do not normally have casual conversations with the Solicitor-General about Burnside, but can I say that there were—as I tried to explain yesterday—various points in the litigation relating to that matter. There were a number of conversations with various legal officers which are privileged conversations because they advise me, and in particular the Solicitor-General advises me. I do not presently recall whether any element of those were reduced to writing or not. They may have been and if they were I do not know whether this particular topic, which was not actually central to the whole matter, was one such matter.