Auditor-General to investigate Premier Jay Weatherill's use of Facebook to give away free Clipsal, Fringe tickets Jay Weatherill's use of Facebook to give away tickets to the Clipsal 500 and Fringe events will be investigated by the Auditor-General. AUDITOR-GENERAL Simon O'Neill will investigate Premier Jay Weatherill's use of Facebook to give away Clipsal and Fringe tickets worth thousands of dollars amid Opposition claims it is political advertising. The use of taxpayer-funded giveaways to drive traffic to Mr Weatherill's Facebook and Twitter sites appears to contravene Facebook policy, though the social-media giant declined to comment. The Opposition claims the practice could lead to ministers demanding their agencies provide taxpayer-funded tickets to football grand finals, Test cricket matches and even bed and breakfast holidays to draw people to their Facebook sites and become 'friends'. In evidence today to State Parliament's powerful Economic and Finance Committee, Mr O'Neill: ANNOUNCED Facebook giveaways of taxpayer-funded prizes by ministers would be reviewed in his report into political advertising; CONFIRMED the Government's Shared Services is now $110 million behind its savings target and a business unit it set up to save money has spent $48 million more than it saved; WILL consider in his next report whether a $27 million clawback of GST funds from a $30 million federal grant for Adelaide Oval should be added on top of the $535 million cap on the redevelopment; DISCUSSED a $212 million GST clawback of a $220 million federal grant for the desalination plant but was unable to say if other major infrastructure projects such as roads face a similar clawback, and declined to debate if ministers should include clawback figures when making funding announcements; WILL investigate delays and cutbacks to an information technology program in the Health Department; WILL write to the Department of Infrastructure asking whether it will seek an undisclosed refund of funds it spent on Adelaide Oval that should have come from the Stadium Management Authority; PLEDGED to look into a query made more than three years ago that then-premier Mike Rann did not declare interests when making grants to a sports team and a church group. Opposition treasury spokesman Iain Evans called for clarification on ministers demanding taxpayers gifts from their agencies to give away as prizes on social media. "This is a modern form of political advertising and I see it as the start of a slippery slope - it opens the door for every minister to put pressure on their agency to provide-taxpayers funded gifts to promote themselves on Facebook," Mr Evans said. I want the rules clarified. Mr O'Neill told the committee he already had made a decision to review the issue. "One area of review now being undertaken is government advertising," he said. I've asked for the matter just raised to be considered as part of that review. Mr Evans later called for transparency when the State Government announced federal funding of projects, to reveal how much of the funds would be lost in GST clawbacks. Mr O'Neill told the committee he had not given consideration to the matter because it was a policy issue between two jurisdictions subject to political changes.