Mr McCLELLAND (2:45 PM) —My question is to the Minister for Sport and Tourism. Minister, I again refer you to ministers' obligations under the Prime Minister's code of conduct. Can you confirm that candidates for the No Badgerys Creek Airport Party and the Marijuana Smokers Rights Party at the 1999 Penrith City Council elections were in fact North Shore Young Liberals who falsely enrolled themselves at an empty house in St Clair owned by a Liberal Party candidate and sister of another Liberal candidate, Mr Steve Simat? Can you also confirm that Mr Simat was and remains on your personal staff?

Mr SPEAKER —I remind the member for Barton—and this is a matter that caused me concern during the last question—of the requirement under the standing orders that people not be named unless it is necessary to make the question intelligible—

Opposition members interjecting—

Mr SPEAKER —The chair is addressing the chamber! And of the statement in House of Representatives Practice page 515, which states:

I ask the member for Barton to desist from the use of names.

Mr McCLELLAND —Minister, given that you wrote to Liberal Party members telling them that the council election would be your `main priority', what role did you have in respect of these fraudulent electoral enrolments?

Miss JACKIE KELLY (Minister for Sport and Tourism and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Sydney 2000 Games) —The existence of one-issue micro parties in the lead-up to the Penrith council elections is nothing new. In fact, it was raised in this House 12 months ago. There was nothing in it then. There is nothing in it now. It does not deflect the attention of the media from the Labor Party, especially in Queensland.