Ticket Scalping

Ms BEDFORD (Florey) (14:58): Would any of this include tickets to the forthcoming Ashes series? Will we have anything in place by then?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (14:58): It's a very good question, and I thank the honourable member for her question. There are two things here for that. The first thing is that if the forthcoming Ashes series is one that the minister has a view that it may be one of these events where ambush marketing is concerned, it will be a declared event.

The Hon. L.W.K. Bignell: It has been.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: It has been a declared event so, yes, there will be things in place for that event, but of course we are then reliant on complaints. We do need people to come forward and actually identify the fact that something has happened so that we can deal with those people who are perpetrating that. The further thing is, I have asked Consumer and Business Services to go away and come back with a set of recommendations, which I want to share with the member for Florey when we get them back. Those recommendations are directed towards whether or not we can actually have a further and different offence here for those people who deliberately set out to, in effect, corner the market for Bruce Springsteen or Dire Straits by buying up a large number of those tickets knowing that the tickets will be going like hotcakes—

An honourable member: Or Supertramp.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Or Supertramp, indeed!

An honourable member: The Seekers!

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I tell you what, if we could get The Seekers back, I would buy a ticket. Anyway, back to the—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Look, I'm—

The SPEAKER: Splendid though this answer is, the Speaker is satiated with it. It is the member for Finniss's question and, in my judgement, the Attorney-General had answered the question.