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Dr HARVEY (Newland) (14:10): My question is to the Premier. Can the Premier update the house about how the government is delivering for South Australia?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Giles is called to order.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Playford is warned. The member for Kaurna is called to order.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:10): I am very happy to—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my left, if this continues you will be leaving. Who will be first?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: It's fantastic for us to have here in the House of Assembly chamber today the students from year 7 at Cleve Area School. I wonder what their teacher would say if they behaved like this rabble opposite? I don’t think these students would ever behave like this.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: Premier—

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: They would never behave like this.

The SPEAKER: The Premier will be seated for one moment. There is a point of order.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: That is an egregious breach of standing orders, sir.

The SPEAKER: To refer to people in the gallery. Whilst the Premier may have a good point, I uphold the point of order and I ask him to come back to the substance of the question.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: And the substance of the question, sir, is very, very clear: what is this government doing about delivering for the people of South Australia? The question is clear—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The Premier will be seated for one moment.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Elizabeth, you can leave for the remainder of question time for being a repeat offender—high-risk interjections, thank you. The Premier has the call.

The member for Elizabeth having withdrawn from the chamber:

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The question is: what is the government doing to deliver? The answer couldn't be clearer: we are getting on delivering for the people of South Australia—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —with the largest spend on infrastructure in the history of our state, and we are very proud to be doing this at a critical—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my left, come on!

Mr Boyer: Read my lips.

The SPEAKER: Read my lips, member for Wright: be quiet! Premier.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The member for Light should be ringing me up on a daily basis thanking me, thanking this government, for finally delivering an infrastructure project that those opposite fumbled with for more than a decade. Every one of them—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —should hang their head in shame. The member for Light should hang his head in shame.

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Leader!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: He was the cabinet minister and couldn't get the Gawler line electrification finished.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: Well, the member for Light, I am sure, will be sending a nice card or something around for Christmas—a box of chocolates, a small pot plant—saying, 'Thank you very much, Premier. Thank you very much, minister, for the great work,' because this government has put the money in to finish the Gawler line electrification, something those opposite were unable to deliver for more than a decade—$615 million on the table.

It was a great honour and a privilege for me to be with the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure earlier this week when we turned the first sod on the completion of that project, and that is part of the $792 million—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —worth of infrastructure—

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Leader!

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader is warned.

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: No sleep!

The SPEAKER: Member for West Torrens!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: They hate good news. They had 16 years—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, members on my left!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: They didn't deliver for the people of South Australia, and now they are filled with regret, filled with bitterness, filled with anxiety, filled with frustration. Don't worry. It won't be long—he's coming. Don't worry.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Playford is called to order.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The reality is that $11.9 billion is underway at the moment—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —with $3.2 billion on road projects, $1.8 million on water and sewerage projects that we have committed to in our budget, and $1.5 billion on health projects in South Australia, which were desperately needed after the mess that we inherited from those opposite, and it goes on and on. There has been $1.3 billion into schools. We are proud of the infrastructure investments that we have made, and we will continue to make them and we will continue to stand up for all South Australians.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Badcoe and the member for Playford have been upgraded to two warnings.

An honourable member: You're aggregating them, sir.

The SPEAKER: I'm aggregating their warnings, correct. Member for Lee.