Housing Authority

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:38): Further supplementary arising from the answer: does the minister think it was a good idea to spend money on interstate consultants and hold strategy consultations at the Convention Centre and the Wine Centre while her budget cuts leave more people homeless?

The PRESIDENT: I am starting to think it was a long bow with a supplementary.

The Hon. K.J. Maher: It was a very wideranging answer.

The PRESIDENT: It was a wideranging answer. Minister, I will allow you to answer the question—but that was a very interesting supplementary question, to say the least.

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:38): I am not quite sure where she thinks we should have held the consultations. Old Parliament House wouldn't have been big enough. Where else could we hold consultations? We could have gone to Adelaide Oval, perhaps. I am not quite sure, but if we had not held consultations, I am sure that the Labor Party would be in here asking why we haven't asked people's views on such an important document.

The PRESIDENT: Final supplementary question.