PLANNING STRATEGY

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:29): A supplementary to the Minister for Planning—

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!

Ms CHAPMAN: Given the minister's claim that the industry and South Australians want certainty, when is he going to release his position on the Roseworthy development, which he has now held for two years?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (14:29): Well, well, well. I would like to ask the deputy leader to please come and sit on this side of the house. Let's go through this.

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call.

Mr Gardner interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, the member for Morialta!

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Can I commence by saying that according to—is it The Bunyip? Is The Bunyip the paper?

The Hon. J.J. Snelling: It is The Bunyip.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: According to The Bunyip—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: There was another display, almost. According to The Bunyip, when quizzed by the intrepid journalist at The Bunyip, the shadow spokesperson on planning, who is none other than the deputy leader, said they didn't have a position. They hadn't worked it out. They don't know.

Ms Chapman: So, what's the answer? What are you going to do?

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I would like to know—

Ms Chapman: What are you going to do?

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I would like to know, and so would all the people in South Australia—

Ms Chapman: Two years.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The minister has the call.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: —what position—

Mr Marshall: Well, you're the government. You're the minister. You're the government.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, Leader of the Opposition! The minister has the call.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I would like to know.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Point of order.

Mrs REDMOND: My understanding of question time was that it wasn't for the minister to ask questions of the opposition, but rather to receive questions from the opposition and answer them.

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! I am sure the minister is coming to the answer.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I am indeed. Their position is they don't have a position, which is their normal position. It is their default position. Their default position is no position. So, what position is it? Now, let's go through the facts. Let's try a few facts, because that's something that you don't have a lot of in most of the—sorry, that those opposite don't have a lot of. I didn't mean to refer to you in that way, Mr Deputy Speaker; I apologise.

The situation is this: according to the 30-year plan, there was a 30-year time frame over which there was an allocation of potential lands for redevelopment on the periphery of Adelaide. There are a great many assumptions underpinning that plan. One of them was that there should be, at any one time, a 15-year supply of zoned residential peripheral land.

Again, in The Bunyip, Mr Carr, I think it is, from the Light Regional Council, made the request of The Bunyip, I think, and indirectly me, that there be a rezone immediately of Roseworthy. Bear in mind everybody—those of you who don't know—Roseworthy potentially is a place that is big enough to accommodate 100,000 people, right? He wants that rezoned immediately, and so do certain other individuals to whom, I suspect, the opposition has been talking.

Members interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I have made it clear in this house and other places many times, from the time shortly after I became Minister for Planning, and I will say it again: if you want to try and unpick what ultimately was the defect in the process associated with Mount Barker—something which the member for Kavel and others constantly remind me about—what was it? It was: rezone and let it work itself out later. It was: rezone and let it all rip—it will work itself out eventually.

Ms Chapman: Why don't you tell the truth?

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Those opposite have been berating me for three years about the consequences of doing that: the consequences of rezoning without any consideration for land supply, without any consideration of demand and, importantly, without any consideration for the impact on the infrastructure requirements of the state Treasury, way beyond the forward estimates. What those opposite are on about is having a system where future taxpayers and their children subsidise people today—

Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: Point of order.

Ms Chapman: Let him keep going. I want them all on the record.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! I would like to hear the point of order.

Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN: It won't surprise anybody that twice now the Minister for Planning has exceeded the time allowed to get back with an answer.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I am saddened to say that the minister has used up his full allotment. Member for Mitchell.