NOARLUNGA RAILWAY LINE

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:48): My question is to the Minister for Transport Services. Will the timetables for the Seaford rail line include information to allow customers to identify which services are electric and which are diesel?

The Hon. C.C. FOX (Bright—Minister for Transport Services, Minister Assisting the Minister for the Arts) (14:48): Timetabling is about servicing. When we publish timetables for buses, for example, we do not publish precisely which bus will be arriving at which bus stop. What type of bus will be arriving? What type of train will be arriving? I may be wrong, and I stand to be corrected, member for Bragg, but I think that perhaps what you may be trying to do is to make a surprise of the fact that there will be some diesel services running on those lines. That has—

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The Hon. C.C. FOX: Member for Bragg, you may have known this all week but, member for Bragg, I have actually discussed this on radio for the last six months. So I don't know what your media monitoring is like, but it's clearly not very good if you've just discovered this. I can't be responsible for who tells you what, but—

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The Hon. C.C. FOX: Oh, briefings aren't good enough?

Ms Chapman: No, they're actually very good.

The Hon. C.C. FOX: Oh, the briefings are good enough, right. So, 'Wasn't listening to excellent briefing'—I'm with you. So, yes, there will be diesel services and there will be electric services. What we know—we are all very aware of this—is that, when you purchase new rolling stock, you do it in a progressive manner, you don't knock out what already works and, as time goes on and as various different carriages and trains are no longer to be used, they will be replaced with electric stock.

Ms CHAPMAN: Supplementary.

The SPEAKER: Supplementary, deputy leader.