VAILO Adelaide 500

Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:48): My question is to the Treasurer. Has the government paid any costs connected with celebrity influencers attending the Adelaide 500?

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: You're coming!

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer, Minister for Defence and Space Industries) (14:48): That's right. We have had the best, and now we are trying the rest. I think that is the message when it comes to the state dinner. Again, I find the tactic remarkable from those opposite, where they can accept over $400,000 in donations from a so-called Chinese mining magnate who did not pay workers properly, but then they come into this place and complain about the Adelaide 500 in an effort to talk down the event yet again. Even today in question time, we had the Leader of the Opposition complaining about Cold Chisel playing on the Sunday at the event—complaining about Cold Chisel!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Treasurer! Members on my right! The member for Newland, you are on your final warning. The deputy leader.

The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER: Standing order 98, the question was fairly straightforward about whether influencers were being paid to attend.

The SPEAKER: The Treasurer, maybe if you can come back to—

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: I am, Mr Speaker. I am talking about the paid entertainment of the Adelaide 500, Mr Speaker, that is exactly what I am talking about. Last year we had Robbie Williams and the Leader of the Opposition professes to be a big fan of Robbie Williams, but he has just called out across the chamber that he wants Oasis. We go for Robbie Williams whose hits include Party Like A Russian, and Candy, and Come Undone—how apt for the state Liberal Party—and now he wants Oasis, who used to party pretty hard in the 1990s. I think we are picking up a theme here from the state Liberals, Mr Speaker.