State Budget

Mrs POWER (Elder) (14:13): My question is to the Premier. Can the Premier please update the house on how the—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mrs POWER: —Marshall Liberal government's budget is creating more jobs, backing business and building what matters, and can he please include in his update what the reaction from industry has been?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:13): I can and I will. I am very excited to talk about the budget, which was handed down in this place on Tuesday and which delivered the single biggest shot of economic adrenalin that this state has ever seen: $4 billion worth of stimulus incorporated in our budget in South Australia married together with $1 billion from the federal government—$5 billion worth of economic stimulus and support in South Australia. It is unashamedly a jobs budget designed to have massive infrastructure investment and maximum employment in South Australia.

Ms Hildyard interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Reynell is warned.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: In fact, $16.7 billion—a record in the history of this state—is going to infrastructure investment over the next four years creating 19,000 jobs—19,000 jobs that will be created. Tens of thousands of jobs have already been created since the beginning of this financial year.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: Those over there can whinge, they can whine, they can carp, they can complain. We are getting on with delivering jobs for South Australia and the people of South Australia love it. Part of our economic stimulus, of course, is $10,000 payments to businesses in South Australia that are still doing it tough—$10,000 payments.

Already, since announcing this policy only on Monday this week, 1,500 applications have been received and the Treasurer tells me this money will be in their bank account within the next three to four weeks, so they will have that money so that they will be able to apply it to those things which are important to their business, whether it's paying their rent, wages, supplies.

Many people are doing it very tough, but they know that they have a government in South Australia that is here to support them just as they know that we are a government which is delivering on the completion of the north-south corridor, a project which has been talked about and sabotaged by those opposite for 50 years.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, the leader!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The final 10.5 kilometres—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader will cease interjecting!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —will be delivered. It's a major investment.

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader is warned!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: In fact, it's the largest infrastructure project in the history of the state and will create up to 4,000 jobs, but that's not where it ends. The member for Elder knows that we are putting more money into the project, the Springbank/Goodwood/Daws Road intersection, a very important project and a project that she has lobbied for and we are very happy to accept it's a very important project.

Also down south—and it hasn't got a lot of publicity but it is a very important project—is the Line Zero project, which is a collaboration between the Flinders University and BAE. This is a very important project and it's going to be funded out of the Economic and Business Growth Fund.

The Hon. L.W.K. Bignell interjecting:

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

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: It is really an initiative looking at an industrial-scale testing and training environment to support the rollout of jobs in the defence sector as we start to build those excellent, excellent Hunter class frigates right here in South Australia.

We are building what matters to the people of South Australia and we are creating those jobs. The feedback that we have received so far has been outstanding. Let me tell you what some people have been saying. First of all, can I tell you what has been said by—this is a name I recall: Daniel Gannon from the Property Council. He says, 'This budget, I think, shines a bright green light to investors—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member on my left!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —looking to come to South Australia, invest their capital.' That's what the Property Council is saying.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Kaurna!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: What's Business SA saying? They say, 'This is a budget which the business community can be confident with.' Fantastic news! In my own portfolio, tourism supremo, head of the Tourism Industry Council of South Australia, Shaun de Bruyn, has welcomed a budget saying, 'It's fantastic to see the Treasurer really seeing the importance of jobs and businesses in our sector and we have seen some good announcements today around nature-based tourism and some new investments in building infrastructure and visitor experience.' We are delivering jobs and economic growth for our state.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The time for answering the question has expired. Before I call the deputy leader, I warn the member for Cheltenham, I warn the member for Wright, I warn the member Badcoe, I warn the member for Kaurna, and I warn the member for West Torrens for a second time.