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  <date date="2009-12-03" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <heading>Question Time</heading>
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    <subject>
      <name>Adelaide Oval</name>
      <text id="20091203e1ad6f8122ec46aaa0000507">
        <heading>ADELAIDE OVAL</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1813" kind="question">
        <name>Mrs REDMOND</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Heysen</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2009-12-03">
            <name>ADELAIDE OVAL</name>
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        <startTime time="2009-12-03T14:17:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="1813">Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:17):</by>  My question is for the Premier. How can the Premier be trusted to deliver on yesterday's Adelaide Oval announcement when a little over a year ago the Premier listened to the same experts and promised to deliver a different result? In a radio interview on 2 June 2008, the Premier said:</text>
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          <inserted>We listened to the AFL, to Andrew Demetriou, we listened to the SANFL, we also listened to the Crows and Port Adelaide, so ultimately we went out and listened to experts. We listened to the football community in South Australia and they said back a redevelopment of AAMI Stadium and that's exactly what we're doing.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="20091203e1ad6f8122ec46aaa0000510">And then yesterday the Premier said:</text>
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          <inserted>Port and Crows strongly support this, SANFL strongly support it, the AFL and Andrew Demetriou strongly support it and so does the South Australian Cricket Association.</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="634" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. M.D. RANN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Ramsay</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Economic Development</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Social Inclusion</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change</name>
          </portfolio>
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          <question date="2009-12-03">
            <name>ADELAIDE OVAL</name>
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        <startTime time="2009-12-03T14:18:00" />
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        <text id="20091203e1ad6f8122ec46aaa0000512">
          <timeStamp time="2009-12-03T14:18:00" />
          <by role="member" id="634">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) (14:18):</by>  This election campaign will not just be Liberals versus Labor: it is going to be Liberals versus footy, Liberals versus cricket, Liberals versus sport, Liberals versus a world-class hospital. That is the key point. The fact of the matter is that the time you were talking about, football was opposed to leaving AAMI Stadium and I said, quite rightly, that we were going to back what football wanted for football, not what someone else wanted for football.</text>
        <text id="20091203e1ad6f8122ec46aaa0000513">Here we have a situation today, however, where we said to all the codes, 'When you are united come and see us and then we will back you in, but we are not going to back a divided house'—like the Liberals are. The point is that, talking about consistency, I have a document here: the state Liberals' plan for a new stadium at Riverside West. This is very interesting, actually. The document states:</text>
        <text id="20091203e1ad6f8122ec46aaa0000514">
          <inserted>If Adelaide Oval were to emerge as a viable city option, this would satisfy the state Liberals' stadium vision.</inserted>
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        <text continued="true" id="20091203e1ad6f8122ec46aaa0000515">An Isobel Redmond statement. I guess the thing is that I have been consistent in saying I will back what footy wants for footy and I will back a united front by cricket and football. You have had eight different stadium designs and one that would bankrupt the state.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20091203e1ad6f8122ec46aaa0000517">
          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
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