Gillman Land Sale

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:26): Supplementary: has the Treasurer read page 155 of the ICAC report into the Gillman land deal which states:

Mr McLachlan said that he wrote to the Walker Corporation which was concerned with the Festival Centre Plaza and Car Park project and was told in a subsequent telephone conversation with Mr Walker that he did not appreciate Mr McLachlan's advice but it did not matter much because Mr Walker said he had spoken to Mr Hooker and Minister Koutsantonis and that Mr Walker would not be dealing with him in the future. Mr McLachlan said that without being told he was removed from responsibility for that project.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Small Business) (14:26): That's a matter for the chief executive of the time, and that's Mr Walker's version of events with Mr McLachlan relaying what Mr Walker had said. That doesn't mean that I intervened in anyway, and I have no recollection of intervening in any way. And anyway, even if I had wanted to intervene—which I don't admit that I did because I have such high regard for Mr McLachlan—that would be a matter for the chief executive.