State Opera South Australia

877 Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (5 June 2019). When was the Premier advised:

(a) two senior employees of State Opera South Australia were able to access State Opera South Australia's bank account for several months after their departure;

(b) one of those two employees of State Opera South Australia remained an active cheque signatory for several months after they departed State Opera South Australia; and

(c) the bank account credentials of one employee were used on 26 occasions by State Opera South Australia to process payments totalling $430,000 in the three months after that employee departed in March 2018?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier): I have been advised:

On 2 October 2018, when the State Opera of South Australia submitted its 2017-18 Annual Report for tabling in state parliament, I was informed that in his letter to the Chair of 28 September 2018, the Auditor-General noted several weaknesses and areas requiring improvement in State Opera's financial controls, including inappropriate access to bank accounts, which had been raised in an audit management letter during the year.