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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite—Leader of the Opposition) (14:57): My question is again to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer provide details of the savings recommendations from the Smith review of 2006 that have not been implemented, and advise why they were not supported? In recent statements the Treasurer has referred to savings initiatives required to bring the state budget back into surplus, and has confirmed that 96 per cent of all savings recommended from the 2006 Smith review have been implemented.

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Industry and Trade, Minister for Federal/State Relations) (14:58): I have to give the Leader of the Opposition credit for this question, and perhaps be somewhat critical of my colleagues. I get better Dorothy Dixers from the opposition than I get from them. I am sorry, I do.

The Smith review included a series of detailed savings of which we have implemented, I think, 96 per cent—as the leader has acknowledged and for which he has thanked me. I will have a look at which ones were not implemented, and I am more than happy to come back to the house. We did not implement them because we did not want to do them, so there is nothing in it for me not to be upfront with those savings initiatives.

However, it does demonstrate the weakness of the leader's questions, because he now accepts, he has put it on the public record, that 96 per cent of the Smith review of 2006 has been implemented. He is endorsing my political strategy. So, yet again I have the Leader of the Opposition, this poor hapless Leader of the Opposition, stumbling into this place and giving me fantastic Dorothy Dixers. I thank him for acknowledging the very point that the Smith review worked. It gave us savings, of which we have implemented 96 per cent. That is why both I and the rating agencies are confident that we can do it with the Carmody review.

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