Luxe Haus

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (15:05): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment a question regarding Luxe Haus.

Leave granted.

The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY: In question time on 17 October, in relation to why the South Australian Tourism Commission took so long to remove Luxe Haus from the department's website, the minister said:

…[this] is an operational matter. It would be absolutely inappropriate for me to have any influence positively or negatively.

My question to the minister: can the minister explain why FOI documents reveal that the minister's chief of staff met with a concerned resident about Luxe Haus in September, less than a month before the property was taken off the South Australian Tourism Commission website? Considering the minister's previous comments to this council, has the minister or his office acted absolutely inappropriately?

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (15:06): I thank the honourable member for his question. We meet with concerned constituents on a range of matters all the time, as any ministerial office would. The honourable member asking the question was a minister himself for a brief period of time. I don't know whether he met with concerned constituents or his office did. People were concerned. My office met with this concerned person. The SATC manage who is on their website and who is not on their website and they manage that, as I said earlier, as an operational matter.