Infrastructure Investment PROGRAM

Ms DIGANCE (Elder) (14:46): My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Can the minister update the house on the government's record infrastructure investment program?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:46): I thank the member for her question. She is a great supporter of infrastructure investment, particularly down in her area with the Oaklands crossing as well. Hopefully, that will be a bipartisan position. We on this side know that infrastructure investment supports jobs and economic activity, not just during construction but on an ongoing basis, and this government is delivering the infrastructure needed to support jobs, encourage economic growth and support the South Australian construction industry. These are all things that those opposite have never supported.

Just think of what has already been delivered: the Adelaide Oval and the Riverbank footbridge, the duplication of the Southern Expressway, the Northern Expressway, the Goodwood Junction upgrade, the state Aquatic Centre, the Gallipoli Underpass, the South Road Superway, the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, the mental health and substance abuse hospital at Glenside, the rail extension and electrification to Seaford, the tramline extension to the Adelaide Railway Station and then on to the Entertainment Centre, the Port River Expressway and the opening of road and rail bridges, the Bakewell Underpass and major redevelopments at every metropolitan hospital.

Over the next four years, the Weatherill government will keep building South Australia by investing $12.1 billion in infrastructure investment across health, education, corrections, tourism and transport, just to name a few. Last month, in September, my agency, the Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure, was managing a total of 134 key projects with a total value of $7.4 billion. Projects such as the O-Bahn City Access Project and the Darlington upgrade are well underway, as is the Torrens to Torrens project; the $985 million Northern Connector project, which did not even form part of the opposition's north-south corridor policy; and, of course, a project which the opposition tried to delay and frustrate, the Festival Plaza development.

Other projects in the detailed design phase or under consideration include, in the Minister for Health's portfolio, upgrades to Flinders, QEH, Modbury and Noarlunga hospitals; in the Minister for Correctional Services' portfolio, upgrades to the Mount Gambier and Port Augusta prisons; and, in the Minister for Education's portfolio, a quarter of a billion dollars to install, refurbish and upgrade science and technology labs at 139 public schools across metropolitan and regional South Australia.

In the housing portfolio, which I share with the Minister for Social Housing, we are investing over $200 million in our 1000 Homes in 1000 Days initiative, not only providing new Housing Trust homes which better meet the needs of tenants but generating a pipeline of work for local builders, subcontractors and tradespeople. In transport, we are investing record levels in road maintenance, with an extra $110 million over four years. We are expanding our public transport network, most recently with a $50 million extension to the tram along North Terrace, and in the north-south corridor—the Torrens to Torrens project, which the Leader of the Opposition promised to cancel at the last election; the Northern Connector project, which he believed didn't exist; and the Darlington project.

As I mentioned earlier, we stand ready to deliver an upgrade to the Oaklands crossing. There is money on the table from the state government, there is money on the table from the federal government, but there is no support on the table from the opposition because they don't believe in jobs, they don't believe in investment, and they don't believe in South Australian—

Mr GARDNER: Point of order, sir.

The SPEAKER: Is the point of order that the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure has violated standing order 98?

Mr GARDNER: No, it is that the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure is out of time under the sessional orders.

Mr Marshall: And also 98, sir.

The SPEAKER: Not only, but also. The member for Morphett.