House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Government Advertising

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Leader of the Opposition) (14:17): My question is to the Premier. Does the Premier support establishing a cross-party committee of parliament to approve government advertising?

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:17): No, we have seen what the world looks like when those opposite have anything to do with government advertising. We all know what that looks like so why on earth—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Morphett, the member for Heysen, the leader and the member for Morialta, you are all on your final warnings.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: We all remember the multimillion dollar campaign of the Building What Matters exercise that we had from the former government. Building what matters? Building nothing at all. That's what the former government was advertising: building nothing at all. We had ads talking about what would get built maybe one day but no-one actually building anything. So we know what the world looks like when you are in charge of advertising, so no. Something tells me that this government doesn't want you anywhere near that responsibility in the future.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Hammond, you're on your final warning. Members on my right will also come to order.