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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BRAND

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (15:07): My question is to the Treasurer. After 10 years of Labor, is the best the government can do to improve the state's economic and budgetary situation to develop a new brand for South Australia? The government's tenders website lists a tender for the development of a new brand for South Australia. However, after 10 years of Labor the state budget is facing six deficits in seven years, the state debt is approaching $13 billion, and the state has lost its AAA credit rating.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Minister for State Development) (15:08): We actually did mention this a little while ago. Maybe it has just occurred to those opposite that we have called for an exercise to understand the best way of promoting our state both interstate and overseas. What we understand about our beautiful state is that, if we are going to get the people, the ideas, the investments that are going to realise this incredibly bright future that we know is ahead of us, we have to first create awareness. There might be some people around here who think that we are well known around the place, but the truth is we are not. That is the simple truth, and if we do want to make our mark in the world we are going to have to find a way of projecting ourselves, and that is why we are embarking on this exercise.

I might say to those opposite that, after 11 years of sitting around on that side of the chamber, could you at least come up with one discernible idea which does not emerge from reading the paper and then coming in here and telling us all what it means, or reading something that Tony Abbott has said and then coming in here and just repeating it?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: Could you at least come up with one—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: —discernible, audible idea which reflects some contribution to the betterment of public life?

The Hon. P.F. Conlon: What about the French villages?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: Sorry, I stand corrected. I do not want to mislead the house but there were the French villages. Who could forget those?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: You could imagine them sitting around—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, members on my right!

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: —in the Adelaide Hills having an Adelaide Hills sauvignon blanc up there, all sitting around amongst themselves saying, 'Wouldn't it be nice if there were only French villages?'

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: That's right. This has been the contribution. It is pathetic.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The Leader of the Opposition.

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