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Mr BELL (Mount Gambier) (14:43): How many more jobs will be lost over the forward estimates?

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Small Business, Minister for Automotive Transformation) (14:44): Perhaps he should speak to the person sitting next to him about what she had planned for the South-East if she had become—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: They had no plans to privatise anything, that's right. These aren't the droids you are looking for. We had no plans to sell anything if we won government.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: I'm sorry. Too soon?

The SPEAKER: Member for Morialta.

Mr GARDNER: Sir, you have given instructions and I draw your attention to standing order 98.

The SPEAKER: Actually, those instructions were about what I intended to do about government questions, but it applies more generally, so the Treasurer should return to the substance of the question.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: We will publish in the June budget all of our savings measures, all of our efficiencies, and the member for Mount Gambier can peruse those. If he wants to grow his local economy and grow his local community, he should oppose his proposed ban on unconventional gas exploration in the South-East.