Mayo By-Election

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson) (15:50): Earlier this week, outstanding ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas was thrown out of the press gallery in the House of Representatives because she was baring arms. She was wearing a half-sleeve, which I think is the technical term. This then led to some interesting reading of the House of Representatives dress code. The House of Representatives dress code states that men must wear a jacket and tie at all times, but if the air conditioning has broken down you can remove your jacket. The only exception for not wearing a tie is if you are wearing a tailored safari suit.

It has been a while since anyone has worn a safari suit in here—I think we have to look back to Jack Wright and Don Dunstan. I point out that those rules do not apply in South Australia's House of Assembly, but when you have one of these bad boys in your wardrobe—a 100 per cent rayon safari suit from Peter Shearer circa 1974—any excuse will do. I am a bit disappointed that people cannot see the flares; they are absolute rippers.

On this wonderful final day of sitting for 2018, I just want to thank the people in the seat of Mawson for all their support and for the great year we have had in the electorate. Most recently, awards were picked up by businesses on Kangaroo Island and McLaren Vale at the South Australian Tourism Awards. It was an outstanding result for so many wonderful businesses, including cellar doors, accommodation and visitor centres.

Recently, representatives of the 10 Great Wine Capitals, including Porto, Bordeaux and the Napa Valley, attended the Great Wine Capitals event held in South Australia. Of the seven Best of Wine Tourism Award winners in Australia, four went to people in McLaren Vale. Inkwell Wines won the award for Accommodation. Inkwell is a wonderful new boutique hotel owned and operated by Dudley Brown and Irina Santiago-Brown. Coincidentally, the last time I wore this outfit was at their wedding around four or five years ago. The wedding was in March and therefore in the middle of vintage, and they said, 'Just come in your vintage gear.' While everyone else turned up in their workwear, I turned up in a bit of vintage from the 1970s. Well done to Dudley and Irina.

Coriole Vineyards picked up the Art and Culture award for the magnificent work they do in bringing arts events to their awesome cellar door and winery in McLaren Vale. I opened Gemtree Wine's fantastic sustainable wine tour a few years ago. It involved pouring cow manure—which was not that fresh because it had gone cold—into a cow horn, which I then placed into a small vault. That was one of the more unusual opening ceremonies I have been involved in. Melissa and Mike Brown are amazing McLaren Vale residents. Well done to them for winning the award for Sustainable Wine Tourism Practices in Australia.

The d'Arenberg Cube won the Australian award for Architecture and Landscape, and went on to win the international award for Architecture and Landscape as well. I know we keep hearing from the government that they are not here to pick winners, but when we were in government, we helped a lot of McLaren Vale wineries with small grants of $25,000 to help establish or upgrade their cellar doors.

In the case of d'Arenberg, we gave them a $2 million grant to go with their $15 million commitment to build what is an amazing addition to not only McLaren Vale but the entire wine industry in South Australia. The d'Arenberg Cube is a huge drawcard. Talking to people at cellar doors, to hotel operators, to B&B operators in McLaren Vale, everyone has seen a massive increase in the number of visitors to our region in the past 12 months since the then premier, the member for Cheltenham, and I joined with d'Arry and Chester Osborn and the team to open the d'Arenberg Cube.

It has been a really big year with so many awards across so many parts of the wonderful electorate of Mawson. I would like to wish everyone from McLaren Vale down through Aldinga, Myponga, Yankalilla, Second Valley, Cape Jervis and across to Kangaroo Island a very merry Christmas and all the very best for a prosperous and healthy 2019.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Before I call the next member, I might make reference to the member for Mawson's sartorial splendour and the member for Enfield's envy at what the member for Mawson was wearing. The 24^th edition of Erskine May, page 451, states:

It remains the custom for gentlemen Members to wear jackets and ties, but the Speaker has not enforced the practice in all circumstances.

So it seems that today you got away with it, member for Mawson. The member for Heysen has the call.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Just on a matter of clarification, I used to have one of those for special occasions and somebody took it, but it was not the same colour, so I know it was not him.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: As they say, member for Enfield, what goes around, comes around in the world of fashion. The member for Heysen has the call.