Partnerships Program

Ms BEDFORD (Florey) (15:09): Supplementary, again to the Minister for Recreation and Sport: I did ask you in that question the nine groups that made up the secondary stream of funding that you haven't touched on at all. You mentioned the beach cricket, which is in your press release, but not the nub of the question.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (15:09): The nine streams of funding you are talking about? There were 19 programs

Ms Bedford: That's also in your press release.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Yes, there were 19 programs. I take the member's question and she talked about the 19 programs and I think I outlined one of those examples. We can talk about more because they were great programs and great understandings.

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Thank you very much, I appreciate that. I can have a look online. Thank you. To answer the member's question—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: I’m not sure if those on that side don't like sport. It could be what it is. They had plenty to say—

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: Point of order.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Minister, there is a point of order. Take a seat.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: The minister is imputing improper motives to a member and he is characterising the member for Florey because she dares to ask a question as not liking sport. It's ridiculous. It's debate.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: No, member for West Torrens. The minister said, 'I'm not sure if those opposite don't like sport.'

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: In one of the questions that I was answering before there was a lot of noise coming from the other side as I talked about sport, and in the last answer I gave a lot of noise came across from the other side as I talked about sport, so it did lead me to the fact that they weren't that interested.

To go back to the point and to the question and talk about the 19 programs as far as the Partnerships Program, if we are looking at the other streams that the member talks about, to clarify that for her this is the support to sporting organisations, the more traditional sporting organisations. They are the nine. I know athletics had a program in there. I would have to go back and just check all of them. Athletics was definitely one in there. I know calisthenics wasn't. I do apologise to the member for that. I think basketball might have been in there. I will go and find those other nine that are more mainstream sporting organisations.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: That's fine. I am giving the member the answer. I will get the detail for her. Again, can I say that this money that goes into sport and the outcomes that we get are so vitally important. I have talked about the great results that we saw at the Olympics and the results that we are seeing at the Paralympics. We know that if we can get a younger generation more active—there is actually a bigger picture to this too. Speaking to people at local sporting clubs, they have moved back from interstate or overseas and they are going to these sporting clubs where we have invested this money. We have put money into improving the facilities, making them more family friendly, so we are attracting families to sporting clubs and sporting organisations.

That is really important because they are moving back here because they know there are jobs here for the future, and they have seen and heard and are a part of what we are doing as far as Lot Fourteen is concerned, the space industry and the defence industry, these sorts of opportunities that are burning away here in South Australia. They want the full picture. They want to know that we are investing in health, and the Premier has outlined today how heavily we are doing that. We are investing in education. We are investing in our sports facilities as well. It's the full suite that they want when they come to South Australia.

They want things like an arena. They want concerts to be here in Adelaide, in South Australia, as opposed to missing out. When you come to Adelaide, you can come to the Adelaide International and you have the big sporting events here. We will have an arena that will mean that concerts will be here for our next generation. This will stop people leaving South Australia. It is something we have worked really hard to do and the tide is turning. What we are doing is actually delivering for the people of South Australia.

We can't go back to the dark old days—we just cannot. We have so much to offer here in South Australia and we have to be doing it right across the board. That's why we are investing in hospitals, it's why we are investing in schools and it's why we are investing in our roads and in our infrastructure. I need to talk more about the $17.9 billion we are spending on infrastructure right across South Australia.

We have big visions for South Australia. We don't want to shrink the state like those opposite did for so many years. We want to grow it and we want to have a state that people are proud of, whether it's going to your local sporting club, whether it's having a concert here that people want to go to, or whether it's having international athletes here like Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams and Simona Halep, who were here for the Day at the Drive held earlier in the year.

These are the sorts of things we want to grow here in our state. That is what we are doing. It is what we are focused on. We make no apologies for it. We are investing in what matters to the people of South Australia, and sporting clubs and facilities are a big part of that.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: The Minister for Innovation and Skills is warned for the first time. Member for Frome.