Industry Development

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:59): Further supplementary: can the Treasurer explain why the Minister for Investment and Trade has failed to appoint any board members in seven months?

The Hon. M.L.J. HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite—Minister for Investment and Trade, Minister for Small Business, Minister for Defence Industries, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (15:59): You know, she just doesn't give up. It's like Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The knight's got the sword in its mouth, the arms and legs are missing, but we will swing it around in case we poke something. I know the deputy leader's form extremely well. All I would say to her is, instead of trying to be a smartypants in here, I suggest she asks for a briefing about the Investment Attraction Agency—

Ms Sanderson: It doesn't exist.

The Hon. M.L.J. HAMILTON-SMITH: —and all will be revealed. If the deputy leader genuinely wants to know, we have been—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. M.L.J. HAMILTON-SMITH: —we have been in no rush whatsoever, as is patently clear, to appoint a complete board to the agency until we as a government are good and ready, and you will find out more about that in due course. I really encourage the deputy leader, if she really wants information, to just call, ask for a briefing, and it will be given—no need to try to show how clever you are and then make a complete and utter mess of it.

The SPEAKER: I call the member for Adelaide to order for triggering that avalanche of disorder. Member for Davenport.