Adelaide Botanic Garden

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:32): To the Minister for—

The Hon. J.M. Rankine interjecting:

Mr Whetstone: Give us a nuclear dump answer.

The SPEAKER: The member for Chaffey is warned.

Ms CHAPMAN: —Urban Development, have the botanical gardens—

The SPEAKER: The member for Wright is called to order for provoking the member for Chaffey.

Ms CHAPMAN: Have the Botanic Gardens of SA been informed that 17,000 square metres has been earmarked for a new space for the Art Gallery?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:32): Certainly, there have been discussions with the Botanic Garden, and the Botanic Garden has been eagerly anticipating the return of 20,400 square metres or 2.04 hectares, nearly a third of the site, not just to Parklands but to the Botanic Garden. I think the deputy leader said 17,000 square metres, an invented figure which she erroneously draws as—

Mr Marshall: Is that right? Is that right?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: No, you are going to hear it and you won't like it. She talks about 17,000 square metres of land area which would be consumed by a cultural facility. How wrong she can be. Floor space is what has been proposed by the proponent, and what would the footprint be? Vastly less than that. In fact, I think off the top of my head it would be 1,408 square metres. If that is not precise enough for the deputy leader or for the leader, then I can appreciate that.

They don't like hearing facts and figures, particularly as they relate to economic development, job opportunities and the improvement of economic circumstances in the city. They are not interested in that, but those are the figures. They don't like it. They don't like development in the city. They have sought to hermetically seal it, whether that has been voting against small bar laws, voting against food truck laws—

Mr Wingard: Your car park tax.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: That's right. As the member for Mitchell says, voting against public transport improvements in this state, making it impossible for the member for Hartley to make sure that he can deliver a promise, which he didn't actually promise—it was the other candidate for Hartley—about an upgrade to the Paradise Interchange.

The SPEAKER: I think the minister is finished. The deputy leader.