PUBLIC TRANSPORT ADVERTISING

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:15): I feel so privileged; thank you. My question is to the Premier. Why did the government cut funding for antismoking advertising at the same time it started funding ads for a tram network that hasn't been designed, hasn't been costed and hasn't been budgeted for?

Ms Sanderson interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Adelaide is warned for the first time. Premier.

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (15:15): We make no apologies for informing the people of South Australia about probably one of the most far-reaching transport plans—the transport and land use plan—that will reshape the way in which we live in this city and in this state. It has allowed us to generate a community debate—something that I know is foreign to those opposite—where we actually put in front of the community positive plans for our future: 10 policies about building a stronger South Australia that are now in the public sphere for debate and discussion.

The way in which we are seeking to generate that debate is, in a modest way, drawing to people's attention the fact that there is a transport plan and publicising what it means for them and their community. So, we make no apologies for drawing that to the attention of the South Australian community. We are getting a very rich debate, and I think what's emerging is that people are actually excited by the possibilities of building a stronger South Australia, and they fear the risks of an opposition that wishes to weaken South Australia by cutting and undermining those things which are creating the strength in our state.