Land Tax

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee) (14:56): My question is to the Premier. Can the Premier advise the house how many landowners will benefit from the land tax changes to be brought to the parliament in October by the government?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:57): I have outlined this on many occasions, and we are happy to provide detailed briefings to the opposition and to other people in South Australia, but—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, members on my left!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —the modelling that has been done and has been independently verified shows that 92 per cent of individual investors will—

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Leader!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —have a reduction. We know that 75 per cent of company groups—

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader is on two warnings.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —will get a tax reduction. That is exactly and precisely—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The members for Playford and Badcoe are on the edge, again.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: They are agitated, sir. They are frustrated. They were in for 16 years and they squibbed useful reform in terms of land tax. It was put to them but they were not up to it. In fact, the only land tax that they contemplated in their 16 years in government was a land tax on every single house in South Australia. That's what the former treasurer, the Labor treasurer in South Australia, was advocating. Well, we reject it—absolutely reject it.

The SPEAKER: Premier, there is a point of order. The point of order is for debate. The question was about the benefits of a certain proposal. The Premier has taken some time to provide some preamble. The Premier has finished his answer. There is a supplementary, and then I am going to move to the member for Frome. The member for Lee.