TOURISM CAMPAIGN

The SPEAKER: A supplementary from the member for MacKillop.

Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop) (14:57): Thank you, sir. Can I ask the minister, given his last two answers, can he assure the house that the money used to 'buy the slots', to use his description, will be spent interstate and won't be spent here in Adelaide trying to attract people who already live here to Adelaide?

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson—Minister for Tourism, Minister for Recreation and Sport) (14:57): I think everyone who lives in South Australia would have seen the Kangaroo Island ad and the Barossa ad go to air.

Mrs Redmond: So that's a no.

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL: When you are doing a marketing campaign—and this is the marketing people that tell us this—

Mrs Redmond: So that's a no; this is marketing for the election!

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL: —that you do a story—

The SPEAKER: The member for Heysen is warned for the second and final time.

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL: When you run a marketing campaign, you do it interstate and you also do it locally, so you have the people of this state being aware of what is going to air interstate, but also the best sales people we have got are the people who live here in South Australia. When the Liberal Party was last in government, we had two premiers in a row who talked this state down—they were all about 'Kick a Vic', and they were all about 'They stole our Grand Prix'. We are about actually giving people confidence about our state to celebrate what we have here in our state, and we will be doing that through marketing. The timing of it—we would be doing it whether it was this year, last year, or the year before, because it is the right time to do the—

The Hon. I.F. Evans: Why didn't you do it last year, or the year before, or the year before?

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL: Because last year was Kangaroo Island, this year was the Barossa—

The SPEAKER: The member for Davenport is called to order!

The Hon. I.F. Evans interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Davenport is warned for the first time.

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL: The member for Davenport may not realise, but the Adelaide Oval will be open for the Ashes in a couple of weeks, and it will be finished in time for AFL football in March; why would we do it two years ago?

Ms CHAPMAN: My final supplementary, sir—

The SPEAKER: Well, that would be a fourth supplementary, and that would be stretching a friendship. The member for Little Para.

Ms Chapman: Are we no longer friends?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Little Para.