Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
2014-05-22 Daily Xml

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Ministerial Staff

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (14:51): My question is to the Leader of the Government. Will the Minister for the Status of Women—

The PRESIDENT: Just one second, Mr Lucas. We are in question time, the Hon. Mr Hood, and the Hon. Mr Lucas is trying to ask a question.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: I'm relaxed. Will the Minister for the Status of Women condemn the behaviour of government media adviser Jason Gillick, who is employed by Premier Weatherill, following revelations that on election night, at the West Adelaide Football Club rooms, he said to a young female journalist, 'You shouldn't be here, you effing Tory bitch,' and then physically shoved the journalist?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:52): I thank the honourable member for his question. As I have said, we often see the Hon. Rob Lucas coming into this place with all sorts of allegations and innuendo, and his information is often completely incorrect and unfounded. I do not know whether, on this occasion, the allegations he has made are correct or not; I cannot say. No one has raised this issue with me previously, and I find it interesting that something that happened quite some time ago is now being raised by him in this place for the first time.

That having been said, I do not trust his assertions at all. He is regularly inaccurate and incorrect. Nevertheless, I do not condone the type of conduct he has described by anyone in any place at any time.