ADELAIDE: The federal Labor Party has been hit with a massive and unexpected bill from the Adelaide Convention Centre (ACC) following the formal end of its 50th national conference.

A spokesperson for the ACC said the centre had been forced to review the hiring charges applied to the conference and had today sent a revised bill to ALP national secretary, Paul Erickson.

“This has been necessary because when the conference ended on Saturday almost all delegates were still fast asleep in the auditorium,” the spokesperson said. (main image)

“Even by this morning we still haven’t been able to rouse them. We’re trying to run a business here and we have other clients needing the space, but so far we haven’t had any luck in clearing out the Labor delegates.

“The Labor conference started off well as far as I could tell. But things started to go downhill following Prime Minister Albanese’s opening address during which a few dozen people began to doze off.

“Once the policy platform motions started to be debated… err, I mean discussed, more delegates began napping.

“By Saturday morning even those at the top table who were chairing conference sessions had to speak in whispers into their microphones for fear of disturbing the sleeping delegates.

“This morning centre management decided they had no alternative but to start charging the Labor Party additional hourly and punitive hire charges for the room plus a daily penalty for failing to vacate the premises as agreed in the hiring contract,” the ACC spokesperson said.

Mr Erickson confirmed that he had been handed a revised bill from the ACC for extra rental charges but would not divulge details.

“All I can say is the additional charges are quite heavy and we are now doing all we can to rouse delegates and have them leave the convention centre to minimise extra costs,” he said.

“But I’m afraid all the delegates are in a very deep sleep. A lot of them dozed off on the first day of the conference but the rest appear to have fallen into a very, very deep sleep once Deputy PM, Richard Marles, spoke.

“We’ll continue trying to clear the room and if necessary I’m prepared to pay for the flights and accommodation to recall Ed Husic to Adelaide to speak on the recognition of a Palestinian state,” Mr Erickson said.

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