House of Assembly: Tuesday, February 03, 2009

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SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S STRATEGIC PLAN

126 Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite—Leader of the Opposition) (30 September 2008). In relation to South Australia's Strategic Plan, how many of the 12 regional plans have been developed?

The Hon. M.D. RANN (Ramsay—Premier, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change): I have been advised of the following:

After more than thirteen public meetings across the state, communities in the Limestone Coast, Murray and Mallee, Yorke and Mid North, Far North and Eyre and Western regions of the State have developed their regional plans. The process involved a number of local people, who freely gave of their time to work for their community in identifying SA Strategic Plan targets relevant to their region. The result is a regional expression of South Australia's Strategic Plan for these regions. The regional targets can be found on the SA Plan website www.saplan.org.au.

The country regions of Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island, Barossa and the Adelaide Hills are going through a similar process now, over the October—December 2008 period. This will be followed by the metropolitan Adelaide region.

Regional plans reflect the important contribution communities make to achieving overall state targets and we are grateful for the contribution that many in the community have made towards this exercise.