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Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:32): Supplementary, if I may, to the minister. Given these daily conversations you have with the department on the services that you are providing, on this one, minister, in September, when you asked them then about the reopening of the services in early September, what did they tell you?

The Hon. C.C. FOX (Bright—Minister for Transport Services, Minister Assisting the Minister for the Arts) (14:32): In my conversations with those in my department—and I do think it is quite normal for the Minister for Transport Services to have conversations with the department about services; that seems to be fairly orthodox activity—my advice and my understanding has always been, up until very recently—up until the review that was carried out by the department, Mr Rod Hook and his staff, post-Belair—that it would be going ahead and would be opening by the end of September or beginning of October. I think that we all had that understanding.