House of Assembly: Tuesday, August 24, 2021

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Member for Waite

Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:07): My question is to the Premier. Is there anything a parliamentary investigation could find that would outweigh a magistrate's description of the member for Waite as 'rude, unpleasant, insensitive, disrespectful', 'a drunken pest', in your consideration that might allow him back into the Liberal party room?

The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: Point of order, sir: that question is entirely hypothetical.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Well, 'Is there anything,' it is hypothetical. Premier, did you want to have a go at it? No?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (15:08): I don't have—

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —anything further to add to the answers that I have already provided to the house.