<!--The Official Report of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia are covered by parliamentary privilege. Republication by others is not afforded the same protection and may result in exposure to legal liability if the material is defamatory. You may copy and make use of excerpts of proceedings where (1) you attribute the Parliament as the source, (2) you assume the risk of liability if the manner of your use is defamatory, (3) you do not use the material for the purpose of advertising, satire or ridicule, or to misrepresent members of Parliament, and (4) your use of the extracts is fair, accurate and not misleading. Copyright in the Official Report of Parliamentary Debates is held by the Attorney-General of South Australia.-->
<hansard id="" tocId="" xml:lang="EN-AU" schemaVersion="1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="hansard_1_0.xsd">
  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2020-07-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>House of Assembly</house>
  <venue></venue>
  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="2195" />
  <endPage num="2297" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Members, Accommodation Allowances</name>
      <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000463">
        <heading>Members, Accommodation Allowances</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-07-23">
            <name>Members, Accommodation Allowances</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2020-07-23T14:29:38" />
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000464">
          <timeStamp time="2020-07-23T14:29:38" />
          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (14:29):</by>  My question is to you, sir. Can you confirm that the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure on 26 April 2018, when he was in Melbourne, certified to the parliament on the country members' allowance form that he was in Adelaide conducting parliamentary business and claimed $225?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000465">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  On a point of order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4343">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000466">
          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER:</by>  By using the term 'when he was in Melbourne' the member, without leave, seeks to introduce alleged fact and so therefore has not constructed a question in order with standing order 97. He has been here for 21,000 years, sir.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000467">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Point of order on the point of order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4842">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000468">
          <by role="member" id="4842">The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN:</by>  Point of order, Mr Speaker: that was an impromptu speech.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000469">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Yes, as is this one.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4842">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000470">
          <by role="member" id="4842">The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN:</by>  He was asking to establish a fact, not introducing a fact.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. Gardner</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000471">
          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. Gardner:</by>  No, he claimed that as a fact; that was a straightforward fact.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <page num="2225" />
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000472">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Yes, the alleged fact has been inserted. Is leave granted to insert the fact? Leave is granted. What I will do is—obviously I don't have the facts in front of me—I would ask the member for West Torrens, if he does have whatever relevant facts—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="interjection">
        <name>Mr Malinauskas</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000473">
          <by role="member" id="5084">Mr Malinauskas:</by>  Why don't you go and ask Nicola or Grant Stevens what you should do?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000474">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Leader! Where was I?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="543" kind="interjection">
        <name>Ms Bedford</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000475">
          <by role="member" id="543">Ms Bedford:</by>  Asking for the relevant facts to be presented.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000476">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Thank you, member for Florey. If you could furnish the relevant information, I will obviously take it all on notice because I don't have the relevant info in front of me. I am going to switch to one on my right; we will come back to those on my left.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. A. Koutsantonis</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000477">
          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. Koutsantonis:</by>  Oh, it's Christmas again!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2020072346fa25b13da0445780000478">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Member for West Torrens, you are on two warnings and you're lucky not to be leaving for the remainder of question time today.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
</hansard>