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Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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SA Water

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (14:35): I have another supplementary question. Does the minister concede that he is an absolute hypocrite, given that he refuses to answer the question that he, as a minister, and his government actually spent taxpayers' money on a consultant looking at the privatisation of SA Water secretly prior to the last state election?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:36): Hypocrisy, thy name is the Hon. Mr Lucas. This is a man who closed down—how many schools, Mr Lucas, when you were education minister, when you were treasurer? How many did you close down? Was it 40 or was it 60? We cannot know, because he closed so many schools when he was education minister and treasurer.

The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS: Point of order.

The PRESIDENT: Point of order.

The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS: Mr President, I ask you to bring the minister back to the question. The question said nothing about schools.

The PRESIDENT: What I would like to see is a little bit of order in this house so that the minister can answer the question.

The Hon. J.S.L. Dawkins: He talks about schools.

The PRESIDENT: Minister, can you get to the point of the answer.

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: The Hon. Mr Lucas, on behalf of the Liberal Party, asked about hypocrisy. It is entirely relevant for me to bring up examples of their hypocrisy, their absolute hypocrisy, in going to an election with the very clear intent of privatising everything they can get their hands on.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Lucas, your question.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: No, it is the Hon. Stephen Wade.

The PRESIDENT: Sorry, the Hon. Mr Wade. So in all this time we have only had one question.

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