MINISTERIAL ADVISERS, CODE OF CONDUCT

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:52): My question is to the Premier. Why does South Australia not have a separate code of conduct for ministerial advisers, given that other states do?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (14:52): As it happens, other states have precisely the same arrangements as we do, I think, if you're talking about Western Australia. I think that a number of other states have very similar arrangements where a code of conduct applies to the public sector generally. In the opposition leader's rush to get a cheap headline yesterday, he should have actually checked that that is, in fact, the case—that our code of ethics applies to the whole of the public sector, which covers, of course, ministerial advisers.