Shop Trading Hours

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:28): Supplementary arising: can the Treasurer please confirm which industry has called for the deregulation of trading hours?

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (14:28): There are so many, I haven't got time to remember.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: I think there were polls last night in the metropolitan media, one of which had 86 per cent of people—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: At the lower end, they were at 70 per cent. They averaged 75 or 76 per cent. We in politics—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order, the Hon. Ms Bourke!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: —dream of those sorts of election results—we would dream! If we scrounge together 52 per cent of the vote, we are delighted—it's almost a landslide! On something like this, 86 per cent of people saying, 'Give it to us, we want it! This is what we want in South Australia.' That's the people.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order, the Hon. Mr Wortley!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: We listen to the people. In relation to industry sectors—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: —there are a number of different individual businesses, industry groups—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: —industry sectors who support it. Of course there are the independent retailers, the motor traders for example, who have a special place in shop trading hours legislation and haven't supported shop trading hours legislation—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: We respect their views but we don't just listen to business in terms of making our particular decisions. We make decisions in the public interest.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: We make decisions in the interests of the people of South Australia, the consumers—

The PRESIDENT: I think the Treasurer can conclude his remarks.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: —the individual businesses. It's not big businesses or union bosses who dictate to us.

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: Point of order.

The PRESIDENT: Point of order. The Treasurer will resume his seat.

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: This has been going almost five minutes and the relevance is completely finished.

The PRESIDENT: I'm very confident that the Treasurer is about to conclude this answer.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: I forgot. I know we're limited to Dorothy Dixers and I thought this was a Dorothy Dixer, but I will limit myself even though it was a question from the opposing benches.

The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS: I have a supplementary.

The PRESIDENT: Well, I am very keen to move on. The Hon. Mr Stephens has a supplementary.