Banana Boogie Bakery

The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:18): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Attorney a question about sausage rolls.

Leave granted.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. C. BONAROS: South Australian owned Banana Boogie Bakery has recently been crowned Australia's best sausage roll for the second year in a row, adding to a growing list of illustrious awards for best pie, best pasty, best vanilla slice, best hot cross bun, amongst others. Banana Boogie Bakery prides itself on its products and credits its most recent success to a mistake they made a few years ago that has now become a safely guarded secret ingredient, and also its pastry and being able to eat its sausage roll without sauce. The Banana Boogie Bakery award—it is a tongue twister—was awarded as part of the recent Baking Association of Australia, South Australian Baking Show awards. My questions to the Attorney are:

1. Did he partake in the judging of that competition?

2. Has he visited Banana Boogie Bakery, given his obsession with sausage rolls?

3. Will he commit to continuing to support this favourite South Australian business and acknowledge the success of Jason and his team?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (15:20): I thank the honourable member very much for her question and with the announced retirements of both the Deputy Premier and the Treasurer, I can assure the honourable member I will be lobbying the Premier for the creation of a ministry in sausage rolls in what will be a necessary reshuffle. I am not sure how successful I will be. But, yes, I love sausage rolls. There is no doubt about it. Most people can tell that is sometimes the case.

I have had the pleasure of partaking in sausage rolls from Banana Boogie Bakery on a number of occasions. Most recently, it was at the Royal Adelaide Show where they were one of, I think, about 13 bakeries that entered the cookery division, class 42 professional baking, sausage rolls, for which I was very honoured to be, for the sixth or seventh time, a judge for this competition at the Royal Adelaide Show.

I think Banana Boogie Bakery was the top marked sausage roll in the blind tastings, earning the only silver medal for the professional bakery sausage rolls division at this year's Royal Adelaide Show. Back in May, the Baking Association of Australia held their South Australian baking show at the Marion Hotel. I was very fortunate to spend most of a Saturday afternoon inside the hotel with about 70 different sausage rolls from across Australia.

I know at the Baking Association of Australia awards in South Australia, Banana Boogie Bakery took out many of the apprenticeship awards, and this is a really pleasing aspect of what they do. They are very strong supporters of young people in the industry and providing jobs for young people. Just in recent weeks, in Sydney, at the Great Aussie Pie, Pasty and Sausage Roll Competition, Banana Boogie Bakery from South Australia took out the top prize for sausage rolls, so they are award-winning right across the nation in sausage rolls.

The honourable member asked have I visited Banana Boogie Bakery? I have certainly visited, I think it is in Plympton, where they have an outlet in suburban Adelaide. But I am pleased to announce that just next week I will be visiting Banana Boogie Bakery with the local member, the member for Waite, Cathy Hutchesson, who is a fantastic local member who invites me regularly to go to Banana Boogie Bakery and other businesses in her electorate.

I know that she is very well received both by residents and businesses within the seat of Waite, and it is a testament to Cathy's contribution to that community that just next week her and I will be visiting that bakery and I will be more than happy to further update the chamber about my visit after it occurs in the next sitting week, and the contribution Cathy Hutchesson makes to her local community—and bring back a vanilla slice for the Hon. Connie Bonaros.