Adelaide Festival Centre Car Park

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:10): Given that the Deputy Premier says that the Adelaide Casino is 'excited' about getting started, can the government perhaps outline to the house what the hold-up in this project, which has been talked about for an extended period of time, actually is?

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: Who says there's a hold-up?

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Industrial Relations) (14:11): I can only echo the words of the Treasurer, who did mention, sotto voce, 'Who says there's a hold-up?' There is no particular hold-up; these things require planning and they require there to be a degree of cooperation between the parties. They also require some thinking about staging, because it would be fairly obvious, if you think about the terrain down there, that one activity starts to impact on other activities. For example, the activity of the—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.R. RAU: As far as I am concerned, Mr Speaker, the planning for all of these activities is proceeding as it should.