South Australian Tourism Commission

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (16:55): Supplementary question: why won't the Premier inform the house when he was first informed of the decision to give this contract to a Victorian company?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for West Torrens! The member for Port Adelaide has been doing this all question time and is warned.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (16:55): I make the point that I don't have that exact detail with me, but it's irrelevant. It's completely and utterly irrelevant because it wasn't a decision of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. I don't know how you were running government—pretty badly is my guess—but the reality is that every decision the SATC makes is not made in the Premier's department. That may have been the way that you were running the government previously; that's not the way that we are going to be doing it. We don't like the decision. We have met with the chairperson. We have met with the chief executive. We have taken corrective action. We are going to be backing South Australian firms going forward.