GOODWOOD JUNCTION UPGRADE

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (14:19): I have a supplementary question.

The SPEAKER: A supplementary to another person's question is a bit difficult to define, but you have jumped up, member for Bragg.

Ms CHAPMAN: My supplementary question is: minister, if this is such an important project, why have you not proceeded with the Leader Street underpass?

The SPEAKER: I will consider that another question.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:20): This is the difference in approach: two local members working hard for the community and the opposition sniping on a very worthwhile project. The member for Bragg—

Ms Chapman: Kate Ellis said you were doing it.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: Are you still shadowing me? I can't remember. No, she's not: she is just freelancing, but she is an expert on everything, so let's let her go.

The member for Bragg knows full well that this project has actually been brought ahead. She would have you believe that we left something out; that is not the case. This project was brought ahead. Why was it brought ahead? So that we could do it at the same time we were closing the rail line for the Noarlunga upgrade so that there wouldn't be two major interruptions, two major obstructions, for those people.

She knows that. It is not even in her portfolio area and she couldn't resist being a smart alec, could she? The truth is that we are doing the right thing by locals and by people that catch the train by making sure we don't have two big disruptions, just one. I think that was a smart thing to do.