CORAL SEA COMMEMORATION

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen) (14:24): I have a supplementary, Mr Speaker.

The SPEAKER: Supplementary, member for Heysen.

Mrs REDMOND: If the commemoration of these events is so important, why didn't the government have a representative at the Coral Sea commemoration on the weekend before last?

The SPEAKER: I don't think that is a supplementary, but we will just count it as another question.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for Defence Industries, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (14:24): I am happy to take it, sir. It was a dinner, and the member for Florey was very kind to represent me at the dinner. As to there not being a government representative at the commemorative service itself, I will need to check. I presume I would have been invited but there must have been something on to prevent a representative from being there. I am more than happy to get up here and inform the parliament about every veterans' function that I go to where there is not someone representative of the opposition there.