ADELAIDE ZOO

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood) (14:45): Thank you, Madam Speaker.

The SPEAKER: You don't deserve a question.

Mr MARSHALL: My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation. What crown land is the government selling to fund the Zoo as part of the 2012-13 budget and will he rule out selling land that is environmentally sensitive? The minister told the estimates committee:

The budget provides for DENR to achieve crown land sales of $2.6 million as a financial contribution to the Royal Zoological Society. We will go about targeting those particular areas to reach the figure that we have been allocated to find.

The Hon. P. CAICA (Colton—Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (14:46): I think that the member for Norwood answered the question himself with respect to the response I gave during the estimates period. I recall, too, during our estimates that I provided an undertaking to give to you information as it became available with respect to the parcels of land that would be targeted. However, what I can rule out, in response to the specifics of the question: we are not going to sell national parks. Anything that has significant conservation values will remain quite rightly with DEWNR. We have not targeted those parcels of land as yet and—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P. CAICA: We are selling land, which we tend to do every year, and on occasions we sell land to then buy more land—

The Hon. J.J. Snelling interjecting:

The Hon. P. CAICA: That's right. We sell land to buy land.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P. CAICA: I have answered this question during estimates. I gave an undertaking to the member for Norwood during the estimates period to keep him up to speed with respect to those parcels of land that will be targeted and, indeed, the communication that needs to happen with other people with respect to parcels of land before they are sold.

Mrs Redmond interjecting:

The Hon. P. CAICA: Well, I have given you the answer before and I gave it to you just now. Madam Speaker, I cannot help it if they do not like the answer to the questions. I am giving it in the same way that I did previously.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P. CAICA: I promised today not to respond to interjections. It is very difficult in this chamber, but I do hear the interjections of the deputy leader, the next best—I will correct that. He is not the next best thing: he is the next, next best thing—the third in line. I am behaving myself and I will continue to do so.