South Australian Tourism Commission

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (17:00): My question is to the Premier. If the Premier is not responsible for the decision to award a Victorian company SATC's advertising contract, who is?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (17:00): Is that really your question?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Premier has the call.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: This is an interesting one. There was a debate in the parliament—admittedly it might not have got to the other place. I don't know what goes on up there; very few people probably do—but the reality was that the former government came to this parliament and wanted to remove the SATC Board. They didn't want to have anything to do with the SATC Board.

They were not successful in that quest, and the reality is that the SATC Board is in place and they oversee the work done to promote tourism out of South Australia. We fought to make sure that that board stayed in place. We did not agree with this most recent decision but that is not a reason to change the overall make up, and that is why we made a decision to put a new board member on that site who would better represent the new direction of the government.