Building Better Regions Fund

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:45): Supplementary: if the minister believes that it is so important to her and to South Australia, which I agree, why hasn't she formally written to her federal ministerial colleagues?

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Everybody finished? Call the minister.

The Hon. R.P. Wortley: Disgraceful. How you live with yourselves, I don't know.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Wortley, I don't know how we live with you. Now stop it!

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:46): We know that those opposite don't know what it means to work as a team. We know that they don't actually pick up the phone and speak to each other, or they don't even sometimes go around to offices in the same building and speak to each other. I'm very glad to say that on the Labor side we have a number of opportunities to advocate—

The Hon. N.J. Centofanti interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: —and it is something that I take very seriously.

The Hon. N.J. Centofanti interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The honourable leader, let the minister give her answer, please.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: I also don't accept the premise of the question, given that I have written to several federal colleagues about this matter.