Motor Accident Commission Marketing Budget

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:28): My question is to the Minister for Police. Did the minister receive a minute from the Treasurer in February advising him that he would not approve the diversion of MAC marketing funds to other portfolio areas as he had requested?

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (14:28): I thank the member for the question and refer him back to last year's budget papers because he clearly didn't read them. I think the Treasurer made this abundantly clear last year. In the winding up of MAC—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —and the responsibilities of MAC—which were around advertising and education campaigns. I think you had them sponsoring clubs. I think you had them funding schoolies week. There was a whole myriad of activities that the Motor Accident Commission had an involvement with. Some of those were actually sponsoring sporting organisations: community football, basketball as well, Adelaide United. I think Port Adelaide Football Club got some money through all this.

It was actually quite messy to be honest with you, so the Treasurer made it abundantly clear that those operations working with sporting clubs, that money would go across and still be allocated to them. It's a matter of how we lined it up and where we put it and which organisation looked after that. The Treasurer made that abundantly clear, that the Office of Recreation and Sport would be included along with SAPOL and with the—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure.

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: You're right. The Leader of the Opposition is right: it was a mess. He is also right: we are fixing it up.