House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
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Newport Quays

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:36): Given the Attorney's comments as to the source of the question, he might like to have read The Advertiser from last year which referred to the $3.4 million settlement, but my supplementary to the Attorney as Minister for Housing and Urban Development is: who signed the agreement on behalf of the state government and the Newport Quays consortium, and were any of those persons involved in the Adelaide Capital Partners option for sale agreement?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Industrial Relations) (14:37): There we have it crystallised, for everyone who is paying attention—that is Neil Armstrong stepping down off the steps in Universal Studios and it is Hangar 51 as well. We have Roswell in there. This has covered every single conspiracy theory that I have ever heard of.

Ms CHAPMAN: Point of order, sir. The Attorney-General might want to make a spectacle of this parliament in answering a question—

The SPEAKER: This had better be a good point of order.

Ms CHAPMAN: —but my point of order is that this has nothing to do with the question as to who the signatories of this agreement were and whether they were all the same as the ACP agreement.

The SPEAKER: I think there should be some scope for levity both in asking questions and answering questions and, on that score, the Deputy Premier qualifies. Continue.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I will do my best to find out the answer to those questions. I do not know off the top of my head who signed what documents. I can tell you, though, that there were court proceedings about matters. It may well be that the actual execution of those depended on the value of them, because there are Treasurer's Instructions about who has delegations to do what, but I will find out about it. And I can assure the honourable member that the person sitting to her left is not Elvis.