ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:56): I have a supplementary question. As the minister has had Woodland Architects do a master plan and has told us that he is going to be providing a more detailed plan for cabinet, if his idea of the boutique hotel is going to proceed, is he going to table that in an amended report to this parliament (as required under the act) and provide it to the Adelaide City Council, or has it been abandoned?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (14:56): I am really pleased the opposition is expressing so much interest in what should happen to the site after we build a new hospital down the road, because the inevitability of that is plain. It is interesting, isn't it, that the opposition would choose to focus on this narrow issue in the week when they put out three propositions for building on the existing RAH site. So why aren't they talking about their ideas, Mr Speaker—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.D. HILL: We know, Mr Speaker, why they are not talking about their ideas—because they are really bad ideas. They presented this week not a health plan but a political plan. What we know about the Liberals and their politics is that they are not good at politics either. They are very poor at politics. This was a poor political strategy and now they are trying to divert attention away from this poor political strategy. When the process of master planning that site has gone through, we will comply with whatever the regulations and arrangements are. We are being completely open about it; there is nothing secret about it.