Legislative Council Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2) 52 2 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Personal Explanation Personal Explanation China Trade Links CHINA TRADE LINKS The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY Legislative Council Leader of the Opposition The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:25): I seek leave to make a personal explanation. Leave granted. The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY Legislative Council The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY: I have been seriously misrepresented. Yesterday I asked a question of the Minister for Regional Development, the Hon. Gail Gago, about cuts to PIRSA amounting to 400 jobs and around $80 million. In her reply the minister discussed a food and wine project in China. The minister said: ...puts out a media release that bags this project—in writing, in public—bags a project in which we are still in negotiation, a project that is still under negotiation. He is so irresponsible that he puts out a media release that bags this really important project that has critical opportunities for the state. At no time did I issue any media release bagging the project. I did not bag the project—and nowhere in the release did I bag the project. I table the media release to which the minister refers. The Hon. G.E. Gago interjecting: The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY Legislative Council The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY: I have had no phone calls at all and I request that the minister withdraw her statement to this place.