Kangaroo Island Wharf Facility

Ms MICHAELS (Enfield) (14:32): My question is again to the Minister for Planning. Has the minister ever visited Smith Bay and can the minister confirm to the house whether she is aware if the Mayor of Kangaroo Island has a home or property that overlooks Smith Bay and whether she has ever been to that property?

The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Planning and Local Government) (14:32): Yes, I have been to Smith Bay, and I have probably been to just about every other beach or bay on Kangaroo Island. I have swum there. I am probably more familiar with Emu Bay, which is just east of that area. Certainly, down at the other end of the island, which is where I was raised, there has been a lifestyle, of course, of coastal living for most Kangaroo Islanders. We have enjoyed—and I did; I'm included in that—the privilege of my early life in being able to partake in that. So, yes, certainly I have.

The mayor lives on a small rural property south-east of Smith Bay, which I have been to. I have been to that property when he owned it, when the previous owner owned it—in fact, when the previous owner before that owned it, actually—and I have been to other properties where other mayors have resided on Kangaroo Island in my lifetime, so yes.

I think there was a question raised recently as to some transport issue in relation to this project and whether he would be affected by that. My understanding, the contribution on that, is that there is no proposed route past his house for loads of trucks in relation to that. That's all I know about that aspect of it for him, other than the public position of the council, which has been to raise concerns about the development of that particular project. They put in a submission, like many others, for and against.