Public Transport Levy

Mr WINGARD (Mitchell) (15:42): My question is to the Minister for Transport. Can the minister inform the house whether all tickets for the Liverpool F.C. game at the Adelaide Oval later this year will be hit with the new public transport levy or, as it is referred to by the Tiser, the 'fun tax'?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister Assisting the Minister for Planning, Minister Assisting the Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (15:43): I do not believe it is referred to by The Advertiser by that name. I think it is only one particular member of parliament who refers to it in that manner, Mr Speaker. I have explained to the member for Mitchell, and explained to this chamber, time after time after time, and I am happy to avail the house of a couple of soft puppets, if that would assist the opposition understand how this works. We will sit down—

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: And I am sure the Leader of the Opposition needs some sort of rudimentary explanation, as he would when it comes to most issues of transport policy given that he has never shown any interest in it whatsoever. But that is alright: he is re-establishing his image of being interested in social issues, once again. He has engaged the support of members of the other chamber to do that, and that is a good thing.

Mr PISONI: Point of order, sir.

The SPEAKER: There is no point of order because there has been a torrent of interjections which enables the minister to surf on those interjections.

Mr PISONI: In response to the minister being out of order, sir.

The SPEAKER: Minister.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. As I have explained to this chamber previously, now that the legislation has been passed and, of course, passed with the full support of the member for Mitchell and those opposite, we will go through the process that that legislation provides for us to do. We will talk to the Stadium Management Authority, which is, of course, the body responsible for managing the events at the Adelaide Oval about how that might be applied, and we will do it in a open, transparent and consistent manner.

Mr WINGARD: Supplementary, sir?

The SPEAKER: Question time has expired, I'm afraid.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Well, that's the second day in a row that the member for Adelaide has missed out, this time because of the member for Unley's point of order.