Following the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires in South Australia, it was found that the state's emergency services radio network needed significant improvement.
Separate to the government radio network, in 1994, Olsen, the state's industry minister at the time, signed a deal with Motorola to establish a software centre in Adelaide.
[2] In 1998, it was alleged that during the 1994 software centre deal, Olsen promised Motorola preferential treatment for the government radio contract.
The report also found that former Government adviser Alex Kennedy and the former head of his Department of Industry and Trade also "gave false evidence to the same inquiry".
He ended up fronting the media and was steadfast in his own defence saying the report that he set up was wrong and handed out copies of his own 48 page response.