Budget and Finance Committee

The Hon. T.T. NGO (14:55): Pursuant to standing order 107, my question is to the Hon. Frank Pangallo.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. T.T. NGO: Has the Leader of the Opposition in the other place, the member for Hartley, counselled the honourable member about the inaccurate references he provided to the Budget and Finance Committee about the current algal bloom?

The Hon. F. PANGALLO (14:56): Unlike Labor, I actually do own up to trivial matters. This is trivial. It's trivial.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. F. PANGALLO: I also have spoken to the leader about it. Honesty is something that South Australians want and they are not getting it from Labor, particularly with the algal bloom and what is happening. We are not getting straight answers and they are constantly having to find distractions to avoid the spotlight on them. There are other distractions as well. We don't know anything about the cost of the LIV Golf course at North Adelaide, how many trees are going to be felled or how much they are paying Greg Norman. The Premier will just not be up-front and honest about the cost to taxpayers about vanity projects like that. The failed hydrogen project—I can just go on and on.

While we are sitting here today, another $7 million has been paid off in the state's debt that is now hurtling towards $50 billion. With cost-of-living pressures, people are struggling to pay their power bills, they are struggling with their groceries and we have a government in here that is fixated—fixated—by a few URLs that did not matter.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. F. PANGALLO: I will just finish on this note: the revelations that were made today by the opposition about the Attorney-General and the Deputy Premier's gross breach of privacy of a number of legal practitioners out in the community, they have not answered. They have not come back with a report. They have not apologised to them. I will say this: it should be a sackable offence for the Attorney and the Deputy Premier.