SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

The Hon. I.F. EVANS (Davenport) (14:26): Supplementary?

The SPEAKER: Supplementary.

The Hon. I.F. EVANS: Can the minister advise how many jobs moving into SAHMRI are already existing positions in South Australia?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for Defence Industries, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (14:27): A number of them are, because a feature of the project always was that it was going to be—

The Hon. I.F. Evans interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: I don't see that that is an issue. It was always the case that SAHMRI was going to include the transfer of existing medical research jobs from other areas. Of course, we have seen of late the recruitment of some amazing, particularly talented medical researchers from right around the world to head up the various research areas within SAHMRI. This is a great thing for our state. I am amazed that the opposition should be attempting to talk it down.