CAR PARKING LEVY

Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:48): My question is again to the Premier. Can the Premier explain the difference between his Mid-Year Budget Review budget papers which identified $26 million a year being raised from his $750 car park tax, and the Sustainable Budget Commission's report which predicted that a lower $730 car park tax would raise $33 million?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (14:49): I do not have ownership of that previous report. This is the modelling that has occurred in relation to the present proposition. That was not advanced—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: It was not—

Mr Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: I warn the Leader of the Opposition for the first time.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL: I am trying to be as helpful as I can to the Leader of the Opposition. I presume it is based on the modelling we now have, which models the effect of this tax and what we are likely to expect from it. There is a range of exclusions from the levy, of course, which may have a bearing on this. The levy does not apply to residential car park spaces; it does not apply to non-chargeable privately-owned car parks not subject to FBT—primary customers in client parking provided on business premises.

It does not apply to disability car park spaces, and it does not apply to car park spaces for emergency vehicles. It does not apply to short-term visitor parking on the grounds of the Royal Adelaide Hospital and it does not apply to special events car park spaces, such as occasional car parking events within the Parklands. Based on the exemptions, the modelling has thrown up this number and that is the number we put into our budget.

The SPEAKER: I warn the deputy leader and the member for Heysen for the second time—that was a delayed warning—and I warn the member for Adelaide for the first time.