Land Tax

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:09): Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Premier. What is the rort that the Premier's land tax aggregation measure is seeking to stop?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:09): Well, I think I might have just explained it in my previous answer, but I am happy to again. You have the situation under the current legislation where somebody who might have exactly the same land value held in a single entity, or a single property, having a completely different levied land tax liability from somebody who might have exactly the same value but held over a number of entities.

We think this is inequitable. We want to drive lower land tax overall in South Australia. The previous government were happy to kick this issue down the road. They weren't prepared to deal with this necessary reform. Well, we are going to be dealing with this—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —issue, and our commitment to the people of South Australia is that we want land tax reform, and ultimately what we need is lower land tax in South Australia. That's what we took to the election and that's what we will be implementing.