Vickie Chapman must resign

Deputy Premier Vickie Chapman has no choice but to resign, after giving utterly unsatisfactory answers to serious questions about perceived or real conflicts of interest and allegations of misleading parliament.

Today’s parliamentary committee hearing heard startling revelations that not only did Vickie Chapman own property across the road from land impacted by KI Plantation Timbers, but the property was deriving an income as an Airbnb holiday rental.

Staggeringly, Vickie Chapman said she could not recall whether she had sought Crown Solicitor’s advice regarding whether she had a conflict of interest.

Vickie Chapman failed to provide a satisfactory response as to why Minister Michelle Lensink had been designated as a potential acting minister in the event she recused herself.

Quotes attributable to Government Accountability spokesperson Tom Koutsantonis

After today’s unsatisfactory answers, Vickie Chapman has no option but to resign her commission immediately.

If she won’t resign, Steven Marshall should sack her.

Vickie Chapman had more than three hours today to provide satisfactory answers to serious questions about perceived or actual conflicts of interest.

Her answers were unsatisfactory.

Vickie Chapman wants South Australians to believe she didn’t know the forest across the road from her family home was to be harvested by KI Plantation Timbers.

That property was clearly referenced in the assessment report the Attorney-General told Parliament she had a “good read” of and thoroughly examined.