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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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MEMBER FOR ELDER

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:30): Supplementary, Mr Speaker. My supplementary is to the Premier. Is it your opinion that section 7 of the Ministerial Code of Conduct does not require the member for Elder to seek prior written consent of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment in consultation with the Premier of the day when seeking employment or taking employment with a company which has a benefit from the government of South Australia?

The SPEAKER: Well, first of all, that is not a supplementary, so it is just an ordinary question. Secondly, I don't know whether the Leader of the Opposition should be seeking legal advice from the Premier, but if the Premier wishes to answer the question, he may.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (14:31): I can't help the Leader of the Opposition if he is misreading the Ministerial Code of Conduct. We have complied in its terms with the code of conduct. The relevant minister has sought advice about that and complied with that.

If they want to advance (which they never do, because for many of them they have over decades participated in business activities that involve their own family businesses) a change in the arrangements which have consistently been part of this place for decades, let's hear them say that. But I don't think we'll be hearing from those that actually do have activities that they involve themselves in outside of this place seeking to make a change in this. They will just raise their petty pointscoring in this place.

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