Federal Voice to Parliament Referendum

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:20): Supplementary.

The PRESIDENT: I will listen to it but it has to come from the answer.

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: Does the minister understand the difference between a federal referendum and federal parliament and the state parliament?

The PRESIDENT: Minister, you can choose to answer that if you wish.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (15:20): I thank the honourable member for her question, and I think implicit in that question is a suggestion that those opposite do not. It was a federal referendum that we had at the weekend, and we have been talking about a State Voice to Parliament which was legislated—two very different things.