Dr SOUTHCOTT —The previous speaker was an economic adviser to Prime Minister Hawke, and I think we see why: he has not caught up with the fact that food is actually exempt from the tax parcel.

Last week a constituent of mine who lives in the state electorate of Elder contacted me. His son had received a renewal notice for the ALP. The only problem was that his son had never joined, never signed and never paid for his membership and did not want to be an ALP member. My constituent contacted the South Australian ALP and was told it was a mistake and could he please return the renewal notice. Fortunately, he did not. He refused to. Both he and his son are angry and baffled that someone had used his name to join the ALP.

This is not an isolated case. On Australia Day of this year 2,000 members joined the South Australian ALP. Many were taken from club lists, and some were deceased. The member for Port Adelaide—and I agree with him on this—and some state members doorknocked these members, and most were not aware that they had joined the South Australian ALP. Last Friday the Federal Court heard how the AMWU recruited ALP members and paid their subs from a special fund. I note that there are not too many members of the South Australian ALP sitting in this parliament. You might ask why. In fact, the Leader of the Opposition should ask why. In fact, if the Leader of the Opposition were a true leader he would consider the calls within his own party for federal intervention based on the performance of the SA ALP.