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Zou, Ms S.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (14:27): My question is to the Premier. Did the Premier's now chief of staff, Courtney Morcombe, ask Ms Sally Zou to donate money to St Peter's Girls' School, due to Ms Sally Zou tweeting a copy of a Commonwealth Bank cheque made out to the Premier on the Premier's birthday—rather than the money going to the Liberal Party, to St Peter's Girls' School.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:28): It is becoming more and more bizarre.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: I know for a fact that the Labor Party were making overtures to Ms Zou to try to get a donation. Perhaps they could declare whether or not she made a donation. We live in a country where people are free to make donations to all sorts of organisations. In politics, though, we have special arrangements for disclosure of those donations, and all those donations to our political party, to the best of my ability, have been made in accordance with those disclosure arrangements. Only the Labor Party can speak for their arrangements. We have seen some evidence of that interstate of recent times—quite disgraceful behaviour by the Australian Labor Party, but if the—

The SPEAKER: Premier, be seated for one moment.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Premier, be seated. There is a point of order. The point of order is for?

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: Debate, sir.

The SPEAKER: The question was about donations. The Premier is comparing and contrasting with other jurisdictions around Australia. I think he has made that point and I ask him to shortly come back to the substance of the question, please.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: Certainly, sir. Obviously, the member for West Torrens is of the opinion that some people on this side of the house behave in exactly and precisely the same way as his New South Wales Labor mates behave. Well, I am here to tell you that is not the case.

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