SA Health

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:51): My question is to the Premier. Premier, is it correct that in your first year of office complaints and reports to ICAC about SA Health increased by 25 per cent? Does that demonstrate the need for an ICAC investigation to be funded by your government?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:51): I don't have the detailed breakdown on the number of referrals or complaints that have been made to the ICAC and in which—

Mr Malinauskas: You were talking about it before.

The SPEAKER: Leader!

Mr Malinauskas: You were talking about it before.

The SPEAKER: Order! I will make the leader angry if I kick him out, so I ask him to cease interjecting. The Premier has the call.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: I can only assume that the Leader of the Opposition is getting a little bit delirious.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: He seems to think that he is the Premier. I think he would like to be, but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon because he is answering questions from his own shadow minister. I don't know whether they could get together in the bar or in the corridor—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr Pederick: In the dream factory.

The SPEAKER: The member for Hammond is warned.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: It's difficult to know what's going on over on that side at the moment. The previous leader of the Labor Party of course had a bit more backbone. He could stand up to people in his own party.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: Point of order, sir.

The SPEAKER: For debate. I uphold the point of order. I ask the Premier to come back to the substance of the question, which was about ICAC and certain numbers allegedly in the report.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The question that was being asked was about what number of complaints had come and in which year, to which the Leader of the Opposition provided the answer to the shadow minister, so I am not quite sure why they are not talking to each other. We all get along well on our side. I don't know why they don't just get together and answer the questions between the two of them.

The SPEAKER: Has the Premier concluded his answer? The Premier has concluded his answer. Because of that, we will move to the member for Kaurna and then to the member for Mount Gambier, who has been patiently waiting. The member for Kaurna.