NATIONAL VISITOR SURVEY

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:44): Are the figures for displaced people from the public housing sector who are housed in areas such as the Cudlee Creek Caravan Park included in the intrastate figures for your surveys?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women) (14:45): I am happy to take that question on notice. I understand that these are visitors to the state, but I am happy to break that down further if that information is available. I feel that I need to say that as usual we see this opposition bagging and talking down our state. All it does is bag and put this state down. All it wants to do is talk down South Australia. It wants to rattle consumer confidence and undermine business confidence.

The Hon. T.J. Stephens: Talk to the industry operators, Gail. They are bleeding, absolutely bleeding.

The Hon. G.E. GAGO: I do talk to the tourist operators, and they are doing a fantastic job. If the opposition thinks for one minute that sitting there and bagging tourism is going to somehow benefit tourism operators then its head is displaced. What it is doing is undermining. This negative talk and bagging of South Australia only serves to undermine our hardworking mums and dads who are tourism operators. All it does is undermine the industry. It rattles consumer confidence and it undermines business confidence. So, that is what that bagging and talking down of our state does: it undermines tourism.

The latest figures that have come out show that South Australia is doing extremely well, particularly by national standards, and what do we get? This carping, whinging, whining, complaining and bagging from the opposition. That is what we get: whinging, whining, complaining and bagging. That is all we get. That is all this opposition has to contribute: complete negativity, complete bagging and complete undermining of our very important tourism operators. They should be ashamed of themselves.