Ministerial Statement

Shop Trading Hours

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (17:37): I seek leave to make a ministerial statement.

Leave granted.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: As a result of questions raised by, I think the Hon. Ms Bourke, earlier in question time today, I have asked my office to try to establish answers to the questions the Hon. Ms Bourke put to me. As a result of that investigation, it has confirmed that I did not receive an email in the Treasurer's office at 2.27 p.m. on 5 October from the SDA, but as a result of the quite specific nature of, obviously, the information that the honourable member had received, my officers contacted the ICT security adviser in Treasury, and I understand that the advice from the Treasury ICT security adviser is that the particular email to which the honourable member has referred was sent to a junk email box. I will seek leave to table the appropriate report from the junk email system.

As a result of this particular search, I understand that it was identified that an email had been received, but the email was identified by Outlook, which is the email client, as containing 'a potentially unsafe attachment' and was automatically redirected by the system through a junk filter. The email, as a result of the honourable member's specific nature of the timing—2.27, or whatever the time was—has been subsequently located in the junk folder. It has been retrieved and scanned by the ITC security adviser. He or she had to determine whether it was safe to open, and he or she said it was safe to open. I am not sure whether it was going to explode or something along those lines. Anyway, he or she determined that it was safe to open and has opened it, and has now forwarded it to the Treasurer's office. I seek leave to table a photocopy of the junk email record of the log system.

Leave granted.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: This particular attachment has junk email: Treasurer.dtf@sa.gov.au, Outlook. It says 'Secretary SDA branch, Christmas trading'. It says, 'Links and other functionality have been disabled in this message. To turn on that functionality, move this message to the inbox.' The Outlook junk email filter marked this message as spam. We converted this message into plain text format. Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: 'Christmas trading 2018 PDF'. For whatever reason, the security system identified it as spam and junked it. There was evidently an attachment to the email or letter which they deemed to be potentially unsafe and for that reason it went into the spam with the junk email.

I thank the honourable member for her question. As I indicated, whilst I had not received a submission from the SDA, its submission was entirely consistent with the position it has always adopted in relation to shop trading hours, so it was unsurprising in and of its nature. I cannot see anything in it which was potentially unsafe in terms of the attachment that was there. We are following through. If I have any further information tomorrow, I will share with the chamber what in the message actually caused it to be spammed or identified as junk email.

In closing, I can assure honourable members that I have issued no instruction that any correspondence from any union is to be junked or treated as spam. The systems that exist there now are the systems that existed prior to the change of government.