SOUTH ROAD UPGRADES

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:11): A further supplementary, sir.

The SPEAKER: Yes, a further supplementary, if it be a supplementary.

Ms CHAPMAN: I certainly hope that you will be favourably inclined to assess this as such. The supplementary is to the same minister. Will the government now release the 28 documents it refused the opposition access to in April this year regarding the South Road Planning Study?

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: Point of order, Mr Speaker. I struggle to understand what that is supplementary to. The answer involved no 28 documents.

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley is called to order and will be seated. I will hear the member for Elder.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON: The point I make, Mr Speaker, is there was no reference in the answer to 28 documents, so how is it supplementary to that answer?

The SPEAKER: Can the member for Bragg assure me that the 28 documents are, how shall we say, cognate with the ones to which she was denied access?

Ms CHAPMAN: Indeed, sir. I will read the supplementary again, if you like, but it specifically refers to the South Road Planning Study, so we are talking about the same study.

The SPEAKER: I am inclined to be with the member for Bragg on this one. Minister for Transport.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:13): The member for Bragg's question presupposes that the government did refuse the release of 28 documents. I do not know if you would put a—

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: I'm sure you do. I do not know on what basis those documents were refused. I will go and check and come back to the house with an answer.