KordaMentha

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:57): My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Is the minister aware that the KordaMentha contract is expected to cost $47 million and that the contract has no dollars spent in South Australia, with the economic benefit to South Australia listed as nil?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:57): My understanding is that the honourable member's question is based on a fallacious assumption. There is only one contract in place for KordaMentha at the moment, as I understand it, and that is a one-year contract which expires at the end of this year. Any decision to go into any further arrangement will be a decision for the government at the completion of that contract.