Fruit Fly

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:25): Supplementary: can the minister outline for the chamber the normal procedure for advising growers and, indeed, advising the community of the release of sterile insect technology within an area or district?

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:25): I am happy to provide that operational detail on notice. Certainly, we have had a lot of general media around how we are releasing the sterile fruit fly and the increase in production. In the Riverland there has certainly been multiple media coverage of it; I have been involved in a great deal of that myself. When we had the release of sterile insects here in Adelaide just a couple of weeks ago, again we talked about that operation and had quite good coverage through the media. In terms of the more operational matters, I can take that on notice and bring back a response.