House of Assembly Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2) 52 2 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Question Time Budget Forecast BUDGET FORECAST Mr MARSHALL House of Assembly Norwood Leader of the Opposition BUDGET FORECAST Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:40): Final supplementary on this topic, sir. The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: If it be a supplementary. Mr MARSHALL House of Assembly Mr MARSHALL: Can the Treasurer at least update the people of South Australia with regard to the final position and can he rule out any further deterioration in the projected deficit of $1.2 billion this year? The Speaker House of Assembly The SPEAKER: Okay, that is clear, thank you. Treasurer. The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL House of Assembly Cheltenham Premier Minister for State Development Minister for the Public Sector Minister for the Arts The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (14:41): These are matters for the budget. They have always been matters for the budget. Mr Marshall interjecting: The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL House of Assembly The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: Well, you will have to wait and see. We can do this all the way to budget day, but it is consistently never done. We never reveal the final position until budget day, because we are still collating information, in particular, some pretty important information that will flow from the federal budget, which could have a direct bearing one way or the other on the way in which the final forecast result occurs in South Australia. So, we wait until the federal budget and then we reveal those matters in a complete way to the South Australian community. This is how it has always been done; it is how it is going to be done this year.