Bills

Appropriation Bill 2022

Second Reading

Adjourned debate on second reading (resumed on motion).

Mr COWDREY (Colton) (15:36): I rise today to make my contribution to the Appropriation Bill before this place, the first and hopefully only three to go. There are many questions that the opposition has in regard to this budget that we will tease out over the coming estimates process, but some key pertinent questions that come to mind to start with are: where is the vision? The second is: did the Labor Party commit themselves to election commitments so far that they had no ability to pivot or to address other issues that are facing South Australians today and that will face South Australians into the future?

During the election campaign, the Labor Party could not go anywhere without spruiking their plan for South Australia's future. They talked about their jobs plan, yes, yet it appears that, outside a $100 million fund with no jobs target or a hydrogen jobs plan that is by all accounts years away, if ever, there does not appear to be a clear and coherent plan for job creation here in South Australia contained within this budget. Just yesterday, we heard that one of the main programs that the Marshall Liberal government took forward over the last four years of government, the Growth State agenda, had been completely ditched by the Premier, and he was happy to do so.

This budget delivers $700 million of cuts to government services. It pushes out infrastructure spending, with the attempted fig leaf of needing to review plans. As we learnt yesterday in question time, a soil test on the new Women's and Children's site disputing the original results does not even appear to exist. The budget is underpinned by significant increases in state tax revenues and federal tax revenues.

This really demonstrates the strength of the economy and of the economic rebound that was achieved by the former Liberal state and federal governments. Despite the Treasurer's constant refrains of how supposedly poorly the South Australian economy was performing under the Liberal Party, he sure was happy to bank and quickly spend the additional tax revenues that came to him.

In the Treasurer's budget speech, there was yet another example of the hubris this government has not developed but has shown from day one. In the opening sentences of his budget speech, the Treasurer suggested that business confidence had improved in South Australia just because of the change in government. For starters, the Treasurer was referencing the trend figure. This captures the previous survey results, a reflection on the policies of the former Liberal government. Had he referenced the current monthly figure, he would have noted an 11-point drop in business confidence from positive 26 points to 15 on the April NAB business confidence survey.

Sir, I know you might be keen to hear, but with regard to the May result, released in recent days, what do you think happened, Mr Acting Speaker? Another drop in business confidence, dropping from the plus 15 result in April to now just plus 6, a further nine-point drop. I did not see a press release from the Treasurer on this month's survey results; I have not seen one yet. The Treasurer was handed nation-leading business confidence at 26 points and under the Labor Party's watch 20 points have been wiped off the business confidence rating already, dropping us back to mid-pack on the current monthly results.

Where are we now in regard to trend? We are still ahead of the pack, luckily. As I said, this largely reflects the confidence provided by the previous government's policies, but we did record a 2 per cent drop, reflecting the actual numbers recorded under this government over the previous months. I have heard commentary and those opposite talk frequently about how this budget was about inspiring confidence. Well, we will see. At the moment, we are just getting more of the same old Labor.

The Treasurer also gave the Liberal Party and the former government no credit at all for any of its management of the COVID pandemic. I do not think you have to stretch or search too far to see that our economy performed better, rebounded faster and outperformed most other jurisdictions not just in the country but in the world. It is a record that we stand by. It was difficult and it was unprecedented. Nobody had a manual for dealing with the health and economic crisis that COVID presented, but there is no doubt that we performed, comparatively, very well.

One of the biggest missed opportunities came from this budget. Again, it appears that the Treasurer almost looked exclusively to deliver the election commitments that were made by the previous government in the lead-up. While those of us on this side completely understand that there was a mandate given to this Labor government to deliver on the promises that were made, particularly in the health area, were these commitments of such a magnitude that allowed no flexibility to change or to address the issues that were coming to face us?

Other states have released their state budgets over the past number of weeks, and we have seen many of them take up broad-based cost-of-living measures to assist with the rising issues in terms of cost of living that are facing not just South Australians but our country more broadly. Other states have addressed this through different mechanisms of energy concessions, toll concessions and other levers.

It is entirely true that there are different options for state governments to address these issues. For instance, the Marshall Liberal government, on coming to power back in 2018, were keen to try to address some of these issues in terms of cost of living because we believed at that point in time that the cost of living and the cost of doing business in South Australia had only skyrocketed under the previous Labor government.

We returned the remissions in regard to the emergency services levy—a broad-based cost-of-living initiative. We fixed the water pricing rort that had been in place for many years under the previous government, again a broad-based cost-of-living initiative to help the vast majority of South Australians. We reduced payroll tax for small business with a payroll threshold under $1½ million, completely eliminating payroll tax, one of the least efficient taxes and a tax that only disincentivises hiring more South Australians, reducing the cost of doing business here in South Australia. Our record speaks for itself in these areas: we have always been committed to ensuring that the cost of living and the cost of doing business in South Australia is addressed and addressed in a broad way.

The Treasurer also spoke about some of the initiatives that were in the budget, including the main initiative, the lowering of the cost of materials for school students in South Australia—an election commitment made by the Liberal Party that the Labor Party matched, I may add. While we 100 per cent support this initiative because we proposed it, given the economic climate and how quickly things are changing we did see an opportunity, as other states did, for more broad cost-of-living relief for South Australians.

There was a reason that the Liberal Party made such modest commitments at the most recent election: so that we had the flexibility to respond. How quickly things have been developing from the broader economic perspective is almost at a level that many have not seen. Last night, the US Federal Reserve increased their base cash rate by 0.75 basis points, or three-quarters of a per cent, which was the biggest increase in over 40 years. Obviously, the RBA recently upped the cash rate here by 0.5 of a per cent, or 50 basis points. We understand that the central banks are very quickly trying to rein in the situation in regard to inflation, which we have not seen running this hot for a significant period of time.

You can add in the further complexities of rising gas prices, as a result of the conflict in Ukraine and the sanctions that have been imposed, and the impacts of supply chains that are still being felt as a result of the COVID pandemic. We know in particular that shipping lanes have been impacted for quite some time. The evidence that was presented to the Economic and Finance Committee during a recent inquiry of the last parliament really did step out for us in great detail the significance of the impacts to supply chains from the COVID pandemic.

We had ports that were closed and not accessible, based on a shortage of workers. There were ships that were being stuck in quarantine facilities. There were shipping containers that were being returned empty or stuck in countries that were not theirs. These issues that have resulted in significant increases in things like building materials—pushing up the cost of building a house—are real and are going to be here for a period of time, the impacts of which, from a fundamental household perspective, have been hitting and hitting very hard.

In his budget reply speech, our leader set out a number of things, in terms of our legacy perspective, that the former government was proud to achieve. Those highlights included the increases in residential construction work in South Australia. We were leading the nation while the rest of the nation was going the other way.

Given the member for Unley's interest and passion in this area, we saw more than 3,300 employers take on an apprentice for the first time. This change in apprenticeship and direction in terms of the training sector was set to turn around what had been, and could not be described in any other way, a complete demise, with a 66 per cent decline in commencements in the last six years of the Labor government, between 2012 and 2018.

These changes that were undertaken in the training sector are absolutely pivotal. We know that people are changing jobs more frequently and quickly than they ever have. We know within South Australia, with the change in industries and sectors, we have a number of people and job opportunities that will be available in the coming years, but there will need to be training to make sure that they are ready to find and fulfil those opportunities that lie in front of them.

In terms of jobs, we just saw the release of the most recent set of ABS statistics. What is very clear is that this budget lacks a short-term real jobs plan. We have touched on the fact that a $100 million fund with no jobs target has been created. I must admit, a similar program, the job creator program or something similar that the Labor Party rolled out just prior to the last election to effectively subsidise jobs, had significant issues that were called out.

The other jobs plan within this budget is around hydrogen. From the good work of the Marshall Liberal government, we do value the importance of the hydrogen sector and what it will mean for our future. Where we differ is the fact that we see an opportunity to leverage billions of dollars in private investment, to shift that risk away from the taxpayer. We know that the Upper Spencer Gulf is the place to build this, we know and have set in place a plan to establish a world-class hydrogen hub in Port Bonython, but to say that this is the fix to jobs in the short term is ridiculous. We know from an engineering perspective that there is no way this project is starting anytime soon, so the jobs that this will create are many, many years away.

I will move to conclude my remarks given that there are only four minutes remaining to me. If you wrap up this budget as a whole, it looks to me to be single-minded. It achieved the outcome of funding Labor's election commitments, but make no mistake that there is a big difference between funding commitments and delivering commitments. Ultimately, it will be the people of South Australia who will judge on what is delivered, not what has been allocated through a budget process.

This budget has been underpinned, has freed up the money to deliver these commitments, by $700 million worth of cuts to public services, most of which were not outlined in the budget papers, based on how quickly the budget was prepared. It was also underpinned by the economic recovery and the strong economic conditions that the Labor Party were presented with when they came to power in March this year. This is evidenced entirely by the of significant upwards forecasting in GST revenues, in state government taxation revenues, across every tax. This was limited not just to payroll, not just to stamp duty, not just to gambling revenue. The vast majority of state taxes delivered significant windfalls that were spent by this Treasurer to deliver the election commitments the Labor Party made.

It was also achieved by pushing out large job-creating infrastructure. So when we see ABS statistics that show that jobs need to be a priority, that jobs need to be created, the questions have to be asked: what is the price we pay, what is the price our future generations will pay, what is the price those young people who are in university now, who are about to leave to join the workforce, will pay for the Labor Party continuing to push out these large job-creating infrastructure projects?

I look forward to the estimates process so that we have the opportunity to delve more deeply into the detail and get some clarity around what these cuts mean for South Australians. I think it is probably very well summarised to say that this budget was one that was, in some ways, boring, that did not provide any surprises, but that also did not pivot to address the challenges facing South Australia now.

S.E. ANDREWS (Gibson) (15:57): I rise to speak in support of the Appropriation Bill 2022. At the forefront is the commitment we made to South Australians for significant investment in our health system. Included in this is a record $294 million allocated to provide better treatment for mental health patients, with additional hospital beds, specialised care, and much-needed support for families.

A total of 100 new inpatient mental health beds will be delivered across the health system to improve patient outcomes as well as to address the ambulance ramping crisis by reducing pressure on our emergency departments. Each of these 100 new inpatient beds will be provided in a single room to create a better environment for patients and staff to best support treatment and care. These additional beds also provide more capacity for paramedics to transfer patients into emergency departments as soon as they arrive at hospital—unlike under the previous government, where mental health patients were too often confined to waiting in ambulances as ramping hit record levels.

These additional health services for mental health patients are part of a greater package that the Malinauskas government is delivering. Children and teenagers will now have access to 100 new mental health and learning support specialists who will work at public primary and secondary schools to ensure both students and teachers get the support they need. The mental health care package also includes an extra six specialist mental health nurses at the Women's and Children's Hospital, five more child psychiatrists and 10 more child psychologists at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

We will also deliver more support for public community health teams, allowing them to reach more South Australians in crisis, including:

prioritising mental health voices in the Lived Experience Leadership and Advocacy Network;

SIDS and Kids SA boost to support bereaved families;

investing in the MATES in Construction program, which delivers innovative and evidence-based suicide prevention and mental health programs to the building, mining, energy and construction industries; and

mental health training for pharmacists to allow them to identify and respond to the early warning signs of mental ill-health.

A key priority for this government is to deliver greater capacity in our healthcare system. The Flinders Medical Centre services the people of Gibson, so the joint commitment between our state government and the federal Labor government for a significant upgrade is most welcome. The much-needed $400 million expansion includes 136 extra beds, an upgrade and expansion of mental health facilities at the Margaret Tobin Centre, a brand-new eye surgery clinic, expanded medical imaging services and an expanded intensive care unit. This extra capacity of beds and additional nurses and doctors will help to reduce ambulance ramping, which goes hand in hand with our commitment for a long-overdue upgrade for the Marion Ambulance Station.

Our government has been listening when it comes to cost-of-living pressures. The Malinauskas government's first state budget is delivering targeted cost-of-living relief to those who need it most. Amid the rising cost of everyday expenses, with petrol prices surging and inflation rising, this budget delivers cost-of-living relief to pensioners and other Centrelink recipients, low-income earners, school parents and people living in regional and remote South Australia.

Our 2022-23 state budget includes doubling the Cost of Living Concession for eligible households to up to $449, free public transport all day every day for eligible seniors and a $100 subsidy, for eligible school parents and caregivers, off the materials and services charge for the 2022 and 2023 school years.

This budget takes the first steps in delivering a plan for a better future for our children, with the creation of a royal commission into early childhood education and care and investing in education infrastructure upgrades. The royal commission will examine how we can better support children in the first three years of life, how universal quality preschool programs for three and four year olds can be delivered in South Australia and how families can have access to out-of-school hours care at both preschool and primary school ages.

For older students, Labor will build five government technical colleges—three in metropolitan Adelaide, one of which will be built in Tonsley, and two in regional South Australia—that will connect existing secondary schools and be associated with the TAFE campus. They will crucially set up young people for the rest of their lives by making sure they are learning the modern skills needed for the future and getting their high school certificate. We know that investing in our young people is crucial to ensuring that they have the best start in life.

The state government has committed to a new self-cleaning toilet block at Ballara Park Reserve. This reserve is co-located with the kindergarten and, as such, has high use by young families. This work will be an addition to the upgrade of the park by Marion council and the recently elected Albanese government. The election of this Malinauskas state government and Albanese federal government also enables funding delivery for the upgrade of the Warradale Park Tennis Club. This funding will support the Warradale Park Tennis Club to improve its venue's facilities as well as ensuring clubrooms meet all occupational health and safety requirements.

The club will be in a great position to continue to meet the needs of its members and its guests, to grow the club and maintain and foster close community ties. An important aspect of the Warradale Park community tennis club is that it is not exclusively for the use of tennis players and their families, but it also welcomes of the community groups into utilise its facilities. This upgraded project will also enable the club to be sustainable in the future by enabling it to increase its revenue base by hiring out the proposed all-weather, multiuse first floor.

Another project to be delivered in partnership with the federal Labor government is the on/off ramp at Majors Road, a project that the previous Liberal government was paralysed by. Congestion on Brighton Road has long been a concern for the residents of Gibson, a concern which the previous government was unable to deliver a solution for. The on/off ramp is a critical piece of infrastructure, as the ramp will make an enormous difference to the residents of the southern suburbs.

Another election commitment which was announced a long time ago, and one which we will finally see realised, is ending the trains and trams privatisation. Residents of Gibson are frequent users of the Seaford train line and regularly advise me of the reduction in the quality of service since privatisation took hold. As such, we look forward to the $1 million for 2022-23 to fund a commission of inquiry to advise the government on the return of the train and tram operations back into public ownership. As Peter Malinauskas said our state Labor convention at the time that this was proposed by the previous government:

A private company would not work in the interests of public transport users…It makes no sense to hand this over to a private network who will make it less efficient and more about profit…We need public transport to be a key service operating in the interests of people, not in the interests of an overseas shareholder.

In my first speech, I spoke about my passion for the arts and my concern that as a sector it is too often overlooked for much-needed support to ensure viability. In light of this, I am keen to outline the budget measures that have been announced, including:

$3.3 million over two years for vouchers and grants to get live music back into pubs, clubs, small bars, restaurants, cafes and other smaller venues;

$1 million to provide 200 grants of up to $5,000 for venues to undertake minor upgrades to cater for live music and other performances;

$500,000 to help support the return of live music to the Royal Adelaide Show after a hiatus of 20 years and to support local artists and performers who have done it tough during COVID-19;

$8 million over four years to allow the Fringe to host a headline anchor event each year, provide resources to effectively market the event interstate and overseas and to also support the Fringe's grant program to continue to support new and emerging artists coming to the event;

$8 million over four years to boost funding to arts and artists; and

$2 million over four years to support the Adelaide Film Festival becoming an annual event.

This is a comprehensive list of programs supporting arts organisations and artists in South Australia, and our Labor government is able to deliver on all of our election commitments.

I look forward to the realisation of delivery of these important projects and seeing this Malinauskas government improve the lives of South Australians and, in particular, the people of Gibson. I commend the bill to the house.

Mr PATTERSON (Morphett) (16:07): I rise to speak on the Appropriation Bill, which really is an important bill that comes before parliament each year to debate the state budget. The state budget is a document that really does indicate the priorities of the government.

One thing that is very evident to me on reading through the budget is the lack of focus and ambition for the economy of South Australia in this year's budget. This is not entirely unexpected, though, because there really was minimal economic policy taken to the election by the Labor government despite the massive economic challenges that face this state, whether that relates to our coming out of COVID and working our way through that or the inflation that is now coming across the globe to Australia.

A lot of it relates to issues to do with COVID itself. Whether it is because of massive government stimuluses or supply chain disruptions, it is causing big headaches around inflation. It has an impact on the cost of living for ordinary families and for businesses that are struggling to make ends meet. No focus was put on that during the election, and then it falls out when we look at the budget documents that were handed down only two weeks ago.

We can contrast that with the years of the Marshall Liberal government, when we relentlessly focused on keeping the cost of business low, keeping the cost to South Australian households low and making sure that that environment, those economic settings for the state, was really setting the state up into the future as well. We know that when we keep the costs down, it certainly helps drive economic activity because it attracts businesses to the state, it helps existing businesses grow and expand and it also makes more disposable income for households to then go off and enjoy what is a fantastic part of the world to live in—South Australia. We have the most livable city in the nation, and Adelaide is the third most livable city in the world.

Some of those initiatives that were undertaken to give lower costs from a business perspective included the payroll tax exemption for small businesses. Basically, those with a payroll of less than $1.5 million, which encompasses just about every single small business in the state, has no payroll tax. That allows those businesses to invest more in their business, to employ more people and, in turn, to help their business grow.

Another initiative that was really important to help both businesses and householders alike was the $90 million per year remission to the emergency services levy—again, keeping costs down. That fantastic initiative effectively, on average, halved the ESL bill for households. Another significant improvement to help with cost of living was the reduction in water rates that occurred. We saw an average saving of $200 for households and for businesses it was even more significant, with roughly $1,300 per annum, which, again can be used within their business.

At the moment, we are going through massive challenges with the electricity grid. Our government really set about stabilising the grid, making it reliable and, in turn, reducing prices. That saw electricity prices for the average electricity bill reducing by $421 over those four years. This was really all about getting those fundamentals right and getting the underpinnings for the economy to allow it to grow.

At a bigger level, though, the strengths of this state are significant in terms of economic key industries. We wanted to make sure that those industries were able to grow and prosper because we are in a global environment. Not only are businesses competing amongst themselves here in South Australia but they are having to look nationally, they are having to look globally, but why wouldn't you? If you want to have a bigger customer base, there is no better customer business than where we are located in the South-East Asia region.

It is a growing region, with massive population growth, and a lot of that is moving into the middle class that wants goods and services that can be provided by South Australia. When we looked at what those potential exports would entail in terms of goods or services, some of the key sectors that make up approximately between 90 per cent and 95 per cent of our exports were in nine key areas, which we labelled the growth state sectors.

We have those foundational sectors that have set this state up from its first European settlement days. The food, wine and agriculture sector is worth $23 billion. Energy and mining is a very important sector, and then also more recently the defence sector has really set this state up as the defence state. Closely aligned to defence more and more is space and the opportunities there, and of course that is very high-tech as well. There are certainly opportunities in the high-tech space.

As to technological advancement, there are massive opportunities in the health and medical industries as well. At a more service-level base, there are fantastic opportunities within the creative industries, and, as I said, being the most livable city in the nation, there are great opportunities here for not only tourism but also our knowledge base and our fantastic universities and tertiary study options. There are great opportunities in terms of international education.

As I said, there are great opportunities for exports. As a government, we worked hard to really try to ratchet this up by bringing more money into this state. One of the fantastic ways we did that was through our trade office network. When we came to government, there were four trade offices. By the time the four years had finished, there were over 15 trade offices, which effectively gave South Australian businesses representation by these trade offices following the sun.

Starting off in the US, there were three trade offices and then, moving through into Asia, we had trade offices in Japan and Singapore. These were key areas, as well as adding additional representation in China. China is certainly a big market but, when we look at the challenges we are facing with market access issues, we have other opportunities now.

India is certainly very prospective, so we have trade offices in India, over in the Middle East in Dubai and moving through into Europe. With Brexit, and the UK and the EU going it alone, it is certainly important to have direct representation in Europe. We did that via a Paris trade office and then, in terms of our London Agent General, we looked to give that a key trade and investment focus and beef that up.

Especially when you think of the fact that there was no international travel available during COVID and the challenges there, without these trade offices it would have been a real handicap for our exporting businesses. Alternatively, these trade offices really worked hard and you could see that the proof was in the pudding. For the first time in the state's history, in July last year we had $13 billion worth of overseas goods exports, and this continued on. That is over a rolling 12-month term. That continued on month after month, in August, September, October and continuing on. The most recent figures in March show that overseas goods exports for the 12 months to March of 2022 was $13.7 billion. This is a fantastic result and is bringing money into the state.

Other areas in terms of the investment space where the government worked really hard was trying to drive businesses to come here, set up and invest here and grow jobs. A specific example is in the high-tech sector, where there are some fantastic opportunities because of the work that is going on in artificial intelligence, in cybersecurity and in the space area.

We had massive global firms set up here. Accenture set up, bringing 2,000 jobs; PwC expanded here, adding 2,000 jobs; Cognizant looked to set up here, with over 1,600 jobs. Other names with big injections of jobs were Deloitte, Amazon Web Services, Google, MTX. Amazon Web Services and Google are the top four and top two companies in the world that have set up here in South Australia. Combined, that has created over 7,000 jobs by having them land here in South Australia. They are high-paying jobs and certainly they are very attractive to all ages but of course to the younger generation who want to set up in South Australia and have a globally focused career based right here in Adelaide.

Overall, in the four years of the Marshall government we saw over 41,300 jobs created. In December last year, I think it was, the unemployment rate hit a low level of 3.9 per cent, which had not occurred since records began in South Australia. That is fantastic for business and it is fantastic for our younger generation, compared with what we see in the budget now, where estimates are of employment growth of only 1 per cent compared with this significant employment growth. That really shows concerns about what is in this budget around growing the economy going forward.

I could talk more on that, but overall that resulted in South Australia having the fastest growing economy in the nation, at 3.9 per cent. This is the first time that South Australia has led the nation, and this was important for the state because this strong economy gave us strong GST receipts, big increases in stamp duty receipts and increases in royalties from the mining space. No doubt that has paid for some of the $3.1 billion of spending that is in this budget by the Labor government. It is not only that spending though.

Our focus was always that having a strong economy allows you to then provide those services. I do not see that here. I just see hanging on the coat-tails of the good economic work of the Marshall government to pay for the commitments that Labor made in the election. There was no policy effort put in. In fact, what we see is cuts to non-frontline departments to pay for these massive spending commitments.

Realistically, a lot of these non-frontline departments are in the areas of key economic enablers. I talked about the efforts in trade and investment. We see a $4.7 million reduction in budget there rolling through across each year to being $4 million over the final four years. There are big deductions in energy and mining as well.

It is worth spending a bit of time on the energy and mining space. I am the shadow minister for that area. It is an important economic area for the state, as I said previously. It is worth about $9.2 billion to the state's economy and the state government collects royalties from mining. For the 2021-22 year, royalties were estimated at $368 million, according to the budget here. Because of the continued focus on that, that is expected to rise in the following year of the budget. It creates exports of over $5 billion into the state. That is money coming in that helps grow the economy.

When I look at some of the highlights of the 2021-22 budget they really jump off the page in terms of one of the key focuses of the Marshall government, which was to lower electricity prices, to make electricity more affordable, but also more reliable and clean at the same time, making sure we get the balance right. We had some fantastic schemes: the Home Battery Scheme; the Switch for Solar scheme, which was working magnificently; and the Grid Scale Storage Fund. I talked about reliability and grid stability. That allows for dispatchable electricity to be stored because we know that, while we do have fantastic renewable energy resources here, we need to make sure that it is also dispatchable, which then allows it to be more base load.

Those schemes worked successfully. The Home Battery Scheme saw a big uptake in batteries—over 200-megawatt hours of capacity. That is a big chunk of capacity. The solar panels on household roofs are well over a gigawatt now and we have 200-megawatt hours of battery capacity to go with that. That really helps stabilise the grid, especially when people are coming home and turning the lights on. That is where the pressures are in the system as well.

In the budget, these fantastic programs have been cruelly cut—the Home Battery Scheme, the Switch for Solar, the Grid Scale Storage Fund, and even programs to help roll out the electric vehicle program. We have the smart charging for electric vehicles. Car owners want to charge their car, which of course they are going to do. They want to charge their car, plug it in. Having a smart charger allows the car to be charged at times of low demand in the grid.

We do have an issue around that grid. Again, grid stability projects have been cut with nothing to replace them. At the same time, we are now in a real energy crisis around Australia and around South Australia. There are big issues at play, but there is nothing in place in this budget to address them in the short term. Instead, what we see is blame going on. That is not going to solve the problem; we need to work well.

I have talked about interconnection and the benefits of that before. I will not go into that. I have talked about the Port Bonython hydrogen hub. That is a fantastic announcement that the Marshall government has delivered to the state of South Australia to set us up to be a global hydrogen domestic supplier and exporter of choice. We have seen big investment attracted because of that, with $13 billion of potential investment from significant global industry leaders here into South Australia to roll that out.

I have spoken about that a lot before, but the reason for labouring the point is that, whilst we agree that hydrogen is an important future fuel or future energy source for this state, rather than working with industry and, as I said, leveraging $13 billion worth of investment, Labor's plan is to go it alone and spend $593 million of taxpayer money, compared to the $30 million that the Marshall government put up to attract that $13 billion, to put towards an experimental hydrogen plan. It has not been delivered before in the world. There are some really serious questions around even that pricing. It comes with the claim of 3,600 tonnes of liquified hydrogen stored in tanks for $31 million, $220 million for the 250-megawatt equivalent of electrolysers and $342 million for the 200-megawatt combined-cycle turbine. Those costings are dubious.

But what is particularly interesting about this was that it was flagged as a jobs plan. If you look at the jobs, the policy document itself says that this is aimed at unlocking $20 billion worth of investment in renewable energy. That is investment that is already here that the interconnector unlocked. I have spoken at length in this house about the interconnector and the investment it has attracted. We have a pipeline of renewable energy projects in South Australia, either committed to and approved or being planned. They are already in place and this policy sneakily tries to hoover them up and lay claim to those jobs that have been created by the Marshall government.

So there are questions around the jobs, even around the extent of the export jobs that are there and also how the pricing of electricity is occurring. Is that going to change conditions? We know a lot of modelling says that, if energy is reduced, it is of course going to create jobs. What is going on with electricity there?

Importantly, I think the shadow treasurer made a very firm point. Both parties agree on the fact that there is the opportunity for hydrogen, but is doing this scaring off private investment? Could a private investor come and invest in South Australia in hydrogen projects? Does governments stepping in scare investors off? We want to attract investment here. I have spoken before about the massive attraction and investment that went into South Australia and was delivering and creating jobs as well.

I have not had a chance to speak about another important sector in this Appropriation Bill that I am also shadow minister for in terms of space and defence. I note that, post the estimates committees, there is a further opportunity to speak more on this bill. I will take the opportunity at that stage to go through some of those key areas and maybe further findings after questioning, but what I would say is that I look forward to the estimates process and will see how that goes to really work through what the economic focus of this government is. Is it there for South Australians? Is it going to provide for South Australians in what are challenging times and not just for the next few months? I think the economic circumstances are going to be around for quite a number of years.

The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay—Minister for Tourism, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (16:27): I rise today to speak on the Appropriation Bill and provide my support for the bill. It is a sum of $6,628 million, which is appropriated from the Consolidated Account for the Public Service of the state for the financial year ending on 30 June 2023.

I rise today to talk about the budget and what it contains. This is a budget that is timely because it is what we need in South Australia and also what South Australians voted for on 19 March. In preparation for the election, we spent lots of time talking to different people about where we need to put our resources, what is important for the state to continue to grow and what is important for us in this time of recovery from COVID.

I certainly had the opportunity to hear from my constituents about their concerns regarding health. I also had the opportunity because the Legislative Review Committee in the former parliament had an inquiry that was started because there were more than 10,000 signatures on a petition tabled in this house concerning resourcing for our paramedics and our ambulance system. The reality is we had got to a point here in our state where that lack of trust was increasing. When you needed to call an ambulance, when you needed help, they simply were not going to get there in time.

During that time in the Legislative Review Committee inquiry, we heard about many stressful experiences from people whose loved ones could not be helped in time. There were equally stressful experiences from the health professionals working in this area. It was not just paramedics. We had representatives from nursing and the doctors as well, talking about system issues but particularly talking about a lack of resourcing that we have here.

Before us today, as we talk about the Appropriation Bill, we see that, as a brand-new Malinauskas Labor government, we have put health first and at the front of our budget, with 350 more paramedics and ambulance officers, 101 more doctors, 300 more nurses and 326 extra hospital and mental health beds. That is $2.4 billion over five years in additional health expenditure. It is important to put that right at the beginning when we are talking about the budget because this is what South Australians were most concerned about.

When we put out our election policies, we talked about it, we shared it with people. Whether it was at a street-corner meeting, a knock on the door or putting out information, we know that this was the number one issue they were concerned about. Of those 350 more paramedics and ambulance officers, there are 278 paramedics and 72 ambulance officers. But we know it is not just about the people to deliver services: it is about the infrastructure around them, so there is $120 million over four years for a new ambulance headquarters to be built in the CBD. That will include a new city ambulance station as well as the headquarters.

An issue that was raised with us, not just in the committee but many of us have heard it when talking to constituents or potential constituents, was the need to have wider support, the upgrading of stations and new stations. In this budget, there will be four new ambulance stations in priority areas across the metro area at Norwood, Woodville, Golden Grove and Edwardstown. Another four existing stations at Campbelltown, Mount Barker, Gawler and Victor Harbor will be completely rebuilt and expanded and a further 10 stations will be upgraded.

This is necessary support contained within this budget to make sure that we are looking at a system-wide improvement to reduce this issue of ramping to support our emergency departments and to support the whole system. We are looking at 101 new doctors—that is to recruit additional doctors, including specialists—and 300 additional nurses. That is something we are really focusing upon.

In recognition of what has been such a challenging time within our state, within our nation and across the world, we knew that the health savings that were put into the forward estimates were simply not going to be achieved. This is the reality of coming to government, to say, 'You have got this going forward, and it is simply never going to get there.' So there is health savings relief for $400 million over five years as well.

Another thing we have seen is that it is not only about increasing within the system and supporting resources, having more specialists, having doctors, nurses and paramedics, but it is also about how we support our community to protect themselves. The decision has been made to have free flu vaccinations for this June. We were asked questions here in question time, but it is very obvious: we know that we are less protected because we have not had flu here for two years. It is one of those issues where we know that a very difficult flu season will increase the numbers of people in hospital and therefore deepen the challenges we already have.

When we look at the other areas, a particular focus for me has been requests from those members of my community who have needed to seek out support for mental health, their concerns that there were not enough mental health beds. This has been raised with us, and it is something that will be covered here. For my own area, we announced there would be 48 subacute beds at the Lyell McEwin Hospital, which will help relieve pressure to that system in the north. There is also some support around homelessness discharge beds, with 20 homelessness discharge beds provided in partnership with the not-for-profit sector, offering patients experiencing homelessness a stable recovery as well.

When you look at our budget, health is there. It is incredibly important for us to have health support in the CBD area, the metropolitan area and the regions as well. We have made some particular commitments in Mount Barker to the mental health beds and to the Mount Gambier hospital and drug and alcohol detox beds as well. We have also announced the rebuilding and extending of Mount Barker hospital.

This is something that resonates with all South Australians because the issue of ramping is not just in the metropolitan area. Often people needing to come in from their regional areas to the city experience ramping when they get here as well, so the more we can upgrade their facilities and support them, hopefully the more we can prevent some of the longer waits when they get here.

There were some pretty exciting things that we took to South Australians, and they supported us. One of those particular areas, in terms of jobs and the economy, was the hydrogen opportunity. Very early on, in opposition we went out talking about our Hydrogen Jobs Plan. It is about powering new jobs and industry, and we want to be at the forefront of it. We know that we have natural assets here that put us in the greatest position possible for the increase in this market.

We are going to establish a new hydrogen facility, including electrolysers, a combined cycle turbine plant and hydrogen storage capacity in the Whyalla region. We are going to harness the excess renewable energy to create power generation, flexibility and export opportunities. It is electrolysers, it is storage and it is turbines. We were very clear and we were very open with South Australians that this is an industry that needed leadership and investment to make happen, and we made sure that South Australia was going to be leading this opportunity.

Within the budget, there is also $30 million towards a clean hydrogen industrial hub at Port Bonython, and that will lead to about $140 million of estimated total investment, including investment from the commonwealth and the private sector as well. This is an opportunity in terms of a clean, green energy future and also an opportunity about jobs. One of the key things for me is creating this expertise that we can use throughout different industries in South Australia. We can become an area of excellence in hydrogen production as well.

We recently announced that we will have a $100 million Economic Recovery Fund. That will fund initiatives to promote economic growth and development opportunities in South Australia. It is really important that we have the ability to partner with industry, to work with industry, to continue to grow and develop, and what we have seen recently is disruption to supply chains, and some real thinking about the kind of Australia we want to be. There have been a lot of conversations about sovereign capability, about doing more and about being more independent. We want to make sure South Australia is at the forefront of that. We also know that not all businesses had equal interruptions because of COVID and the global pandemic that we experienced here.

The Economic Recovery Fund gives us a moment of reflection. It gives us a moment to reconsider the type of economy we need to have to be sustained going forward. We know the world is looking at itself differently. We know that people were quite challenged, particularly when logistics were interrupted and continue to be interrupted, and in getting base materials that we need in our production.

I am really pleased about the election of the Albanese Labor government. I think this is a time, over the next decade or more, I hope, to really look at sovereign capability, to look at what we can do in Australia. It is really important that we think global and are connected globally, but at the same time you cannot be completely dependent when you want to be a country that produces things, that makes things, and you want to be a modern economy.

In this area of jobs and economy, in my own portfolio we are boosting tourism marketing to $45 million over four years. I have spoken in this house many times about the incredible challenge the last two years have been for tourism and hospitality. I have had many phone calls from business owners whose life virtually came to a standstill in March 2020, particularly those focused on international tourism.

I will give the previous government recognition: they took up our advice about the Great State Vouchers and did eight rounds of it, and they recognised that the industry was suffering. But, really, it was the uncertainty during this time, particularly with border closures, that meant it was very difficult to make business decisions. Could they keep their staff on? If a staff member left, would they be able to recruit someone of that calibre and experience again? During this time, many people had to sell assets. I had many conversations with people who said they lost all their savings. It was very hard at times to stay optimistic about the future.

Tourism is a fantastic industry. At its peak, before COVID-19, it was worth $8.1 billion. We had an aspirational target—and we still do—to reach $12 billion by 2030. The reality is that we lost 24 per cent of the tourism industry value. That is a big hit. People left the industry because they had to—they had no choice. We need to go through a period of building back the industry. Each and every other state in Australia is facing the same issue, as are many other countries throughout the world. We need this boost to our marketing because it will be incredibly competitive. We have to get out there and look for that tourism dollar.

We know South Australia has beautiful options and experiences. We have great places to stay. We have beautiful wildlife, beach life, food and wineries. We know that we have fantastic festivals, world-renowned festivals. Our ambition is to always fill up the calendar. Next month, Illuminate Adelaide will be here for a whole month. It is a great connection of AI, art, tech and music. There are events you must pay for, but there are also lots of free events. It will light up our city for a month. In a time when people traditionally tend not to come out, this will make our city alive, and I think that is something to look forward to. There is also $40 million for the major events fund, and that is to fund new events, coexisting-owned events and business events in South Australia.

I was also very pleased that we were able to support the Tourism Industry Council of South Australia. They already had some funding from the Tourism Commission, but we have added $1.6 million over four years to their funding. The focus of the funding is to support tourism businesses, to increase their business capability and to increase how they do their business better. Many of them are micro-enterprises. They spend a lot of time working in their business because they are quite a small enterprise, but we are trying to support them to continue to work on their business as well.

This business capability training will be delivered in a very timely manner. All of us here have experienced many a Zoom meeting over the last few years, or a Teams meeting. We have used this technology to our advantage, and particularly now that we have 60 per cent of our visitor economy spent in the regions we have seen quite a reversal—40 per cent in the metro and 60 per cent in the regions—so this is a great time to continue to support and stimulate tourism investment throughout South Australia.

A key part leading up to the election was our commitment as a government to bring back the Adelaide 500. It was probably the second issue after health, one of the key things that people raised with me. My dear constituents were thrilled when we announced that it is coming back, and so I am very excited to see that that is in the budget.

In the time I have left, I want to reflect on something that is particularly important to me, and that is education. It is very much in line with our election policy for the future. The reality, as our now Premier spoke about, is about lifting the standards of education. If we are going to compete in a world where science and technology are key components of that, we need to lift our numeracy, our literacy and our coding—but we are not.

The reality is we have to face that and change it. One of the best ways that we can lift here is to look at those first thousand days of a child's life. That is why in this budget you have information focused on universal quality of preschool programs for three and four year olds. We also want to support families so that they can support their children in their education endeavours, looking at access to out-of-school-hours care at preschool and primary ages.

We will support the royal commission looking into the best way we can support three year olds having that access to preschool. This goes together with our announcements around school upgrades, the mid-year intake and, of course, the five new technical colleges. That is a recognition that going to university is not for everyone and that it is just as important to have access to great vocational training and skills as well. I offer my support for the Appropriation Bill and I look forward to it passing the house directly.

Ms CLANCY (Elder) (16:47): I rise today in support of the Appropriation Bill. I am incredibly proud of the budget our Labor government has handed down, and I really look forward to all these great policies being implemented. One part of this budget is around early childhood education. In the lead-up to the election we committed to a royal commission into early childhood education and care—which is $2 million over two years.

I know a number of people, when they hear the words 'royal commission', might be thinking, 'Not another one,' but this is actually really important. The early years are crucial to a child's development and, while some people are able to provide the education that child needs, others are not and we want to be able to provide enough support for every child to be able to receive the best education possible.

My understanding is that Aboriginal children and children who are under the guardianship of the minister are already able to access kindergarten as three year olds, so it is clear that we do recognise that there is value in that early education. We would like to see that extended to all children. That will also enable us to identify any concerns there may be for that child's development a bit earlier on, and it means that we are able to give them the best start in life, which is incredibly important.

It is really tricky managing kindy hours, as I know the member for Adelaide can probably relate to. My family was able to make it work. We are a family of two parents and one child, so you would think we would be able to wrangle it but we really struggled. Our kindy hours were 8.45 to 2.45, and it would not have been possible for us to send our little one to kindergarten last year without the incredible support of my parents, especially my dad, who always did the Wednesday afternoon pick-up and then took her to French. That was a terrible idea because she was way too tired after kindy to be going to French as well, so we ditched that early on.

Every Thursday last year, my incredible neighbours took our little one to kindy after we dropped her off at 8 o'clock and then picked her up every afternoon as well and cared for her until my partner or I were able to be with her. That was an incredible gift, and I would just like to shout out to the wonderful Megan and Matt Spokes and their children Harry and Belles for helping us out so much last year and making it possible for our little one to attend kindergarten.

We know that not everyone has that same level of family, friends and neighbourly support, which is why we want to have a royal commission to figure out how this can work and how we can support all families to be able to access whatever care they need to surround that education setting to make it all possible.

Another exciting part of this budget is our commitment to live music. I am a huge live music fan, and before COVID we had an incredible live music culture and live music scene. I invite the Minister for the Arts, whenever she likes, to come to a gig with me. We have incredible venues. We have the Cranker (Crown and Anchor), the Lion Arts centre, Jive, The Jade, the Exeter—I am going to keep going if I do not stop. There are many excellent live music venues, particularly in the electorate of Adelaide, and I was really pleased on the weekend to enjoy some live music.

My partner is in a couple of bands, so on Friday night I got to see him play with Diplomat at the Crown and Anchor. It was a bit of a shock to my system after not going to live music for so long. His band started at 11.30pm, which is about two hours past my bedtime. The following night, he got a former band together from more than 20 years ago called Rash, and they played a gig at Jive with Adalita, who some of you might know from Magic Dirt, as well as Brisbane-based band Screamfeeder. It was excellent seeing them all, and it was amazing to be back in the live music scene in Adelaide.

I am really pleased that this budget includes some support for live music. We have $3.3 million over two years for vouchers and grants to get live music back into pubs, clubs, small bars, restaurants, cafes and other smaller venues. Additionally, grants are available for medium to large-scale music events and festivals. We also have grants for minor works in venues. Up to 200 venues can apply for up to $5,000 to undertake some minor upgrades to help cater for live music and other performances.

We also have $250,000 in the budget to develop a live music mental health support act, to provide a mental health support service to South Australian musicians, managers, crew and music workers who are dealing with the issues brought on by work restrictions during the pandemic, which we all know were quite substantial. In addition, we are also putting in $8 million over four years for an arts grants fund, which will boost funding to artists and arts organisations.

There is a lot in there, and I think we can feel very excited and confident about the live music scene going forward. Please put the date 14 October into your diaries because Diplomat will be playing again. So get it in there—I would love to see all my colleagues there. I will be there, and I will also maybe have a nanna nap that afternoon so I last the full evening.

More locally, we have some fantastic investments in health. Obviously, the budget included a lot of health funding and support. Specifically, in Elder, it includes an upgrade to the ambulance station in Mitchell Park, the Marion ambulance station. It also includes a new ambulance station in Edwardstown. There is funding in partnership with the federal government for additional beds at Flinders hospital as well as a huge upgrade. A lot of that hospital has not changed since I was born there some 35 and a bit years ago, so that is quite exciting. Also, importantly, there is a new 24-bed unit at The Repat.

Also locally, we have an upgrade happening at the Clarence Park Railway Station. This is a station that sits on the border of the seats of Elder and Badcoe. It is something that the member for Badcoe and I fought very hard for. It is quite an unsafe railway station. The crossings do not have any gates and there is also a kindergarten just across the road. We are really keen to get this work started so we can install pedestrian safety measures as well as do some other upgrades, which will be determined through community consultation as to exactly what they are, whether it is bike storage, additional lighting or perhaps some beautification. I am happy to get my paintbrush out, but I am sure somebody else is probably better equipped. We are really looking forward to getting that work done in Clarence Park.

In Clarence Park, we also will be restoring the Adelaide High School zone, so some people in Clarence Park will now be eligible to send their children to Adelaide High or Botanic High. Still in the education space, I was really pleased to be able to get funding for upgrades to a number of schools in my area, and that includes Westbourne Park Primary School, Edwardstown Primary School and Clovelly Park Primary School.

Clovelly Park Primary School has had quite an issue where, because of an issue with the electrical system or the energy system, they are not able to have their computer server running at the same time as the air conditioner. There has been quite a lot of pressure on the staff and the students in trying to manage that and in making sure they can keep everyone comfortable. We are going to address that situation so that students, staff and teachers at Clovelly Park are able to have a comfortable place to work.

Another commitment in this budget is an upgrade to AA Bailey Reserve. We will be working with the City of Mitcham council on this one. In particular, cars would normally like to park around the soccer pitch to watch games, particularly in rainy weather. At the moment, though, the drainage is so bad around the oval that people cannot park there because it floods and is quite unsafe. We would like to get that all fixed up so that, instead of a number of cars having to be out on the suburban streets in Clarence Gardens, they are actually able to park around the oval. It also means that they do not have to stand in the rain, so it is win-win for everybody.

As well as the Clarence Park Railway Station upgrade, we will also be upgrading Woodlands Railway Station, which is another one that beautifully sits on the border between Badcoe and Elder. That is a station that is in dire need of an upgrade. A lot of people were really excited about it when they found out that an upgrade was happening. We will again be working with the community to consult on exactly what that upgrade looks like and how quickly we can get that work started. I will also be regularly speaking with the relevant minister, the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure.

Rozelle Reserve is an absolutely gorgeous little pocket of green space that sits in the beautiful suburb of Melrose Park. When I was doorknocking in Melrose Park, a number of people raised Rozelle Reserve with me and the need to revitalise it a bit. There is funding in this budget to upgrade Rozelle Reserve, and I have been in conversations with the City of Mitcham on this upgrade. I will also do some more community consultation to determine exactly what we do there in terms of the playground, potentially a barbecue and whatever else the community might see fit.

Colonel Light Gardens West Tennis Club is just on the other side of Winston Avenue from Melrose Park. It is over in the bit of Colonel Light Gardens that is actually on the western side of Goodwood Road, which not everyone is always aware of. It is a little special pocket of Colonel Light Gardens that sits over there, and this tennis club is a beautiful little community with great people, including the president, John, who is an absolute delight and also runs an incredible innovative business called FuseTech.

We will be improving the facade, the fencing, surfaces and clubrooms at the club. We are really looking forward to getting that work started too. I was hoping that we could maybe get some courts done before the season starts again in October, and maybe we will. Maybe time has not quite run out. Also in Colonel Light Gardens, we will be putting up a heritage-style arch at Ludgate Circus, which is on the corner of Goodwood Road and Grange Road. There is currently one at Oxford Circus, which is on the corner of Springbank and Goodwood roads, which some of you might have seen diagonally opposite Springbank Road. We will be putting an arch there as well, which will be really beautiful and create a gorgeous welcome to the area of Colonel Light Gardens.

We will be upgrading the entrance and doing surface upgrades at Reade Park Lawn Tennis Club. It is a great community. I am really grateful to Tom Twelftree, who has spent a lot of time talking to me about the club and its needs. I am really looking forward to working with the broader community to ensure that these upgrades really improve the look and feel of this facility and that it is a bit more in keeping with the area because Colonel Light Gardens is obviously a beautiful suburb and this club is not a beautiful looking club at the moment.

Also in the area, just next to Reade Park Lawn Tennis Club, is the Colonel Light Gardens Bowling Club. I am very grateful to Kevin there and the rest of the team, who have been very welcoming to me. I even got to have a little bowls lesson recently, which was much needed. I have played a fair bit of night owls at Edwardstown Bowling Club, but I have never been that great, so it was very good to have that time to learn a bit. An instructor from Hawthorn Bowling Club, just out of my electorate, came over and helped and gave us all some pointers. If anyone else is interested in getting their bowls skills up, I am happy to see if I can pull you over to Colonel Light Gardens sometime soon.

Mortlock oval is a beautiful community space and home to the Colonel Light Gardens Football Club and the Goodwood Baseball Club. We will be renovating the facilities there, including much-needed women's change rooms. At the moment, a number of women try to get changed in their cars and in the car parks, and we do not really think that is acceptable. We are really looking forward to getting that work done.

I have had such joy over the last more than 20 months, as the candidate for Elder and now the member for Elder, speaking with different community groups and community clubs about what they are doing and about their members and about what they need. Again, it has been a pleasure working with the football club and the baseball club in this instance about their requirements. I am really looking forward to getting this work done in a way that again pays homage to the area they are in in Colonel Light Gardens.

One issue that came up a lot when I was doorknocking in Mitchell Park, particularly the section of Mitchell Park behind Hamilton Secondary College, was that the fencing behind the college is now locked most of the time and that the southern end in particular is always locked. This has meant that Mitchell Park has basically been cut in half. Part of the community is not able to access the rest of the community easily because there is a railway line on the other side, so they are required to go back down Daws Road and then turn left onto Marion Road, just walking, to access other parts of Mitchell Park.

This is a real shame, particularly with the Mitchell Park Sports and Community Club opening in coming weeks. It makes it really difficult for those Mitchell Park residents to actually engage in those facilities and use them. I am very pleased that we have committed to addressing this issue. I have been working with the Minister for Education and will be working with the community and the school to develop a solution so that we can make Mitchell Park whole again.

Over in St Marys, we have committed more than $500,000 to upgrading various green spaces. Whether that might be planting more trees in one space, adding some new play equipment to another, we are really open to exactly what that looks like. We have so many good green spaces and so many great opportunities in the area. I have already started having conversations with people in that part of our community about what they think they would like and what would be of most benefit. I have also been working with the council on this, and I am really pleased with how those talks are going and looking forward to getting back out into the community of St Mary's to make sure we get these areas as schmick as they can possibly be.

Not far from St Marys, over in Pasadena last November, the City of Mitcham purchased the old Sea Scouts hall with the intention of turning it into a community centre. We committed $500,000 to help those efforts and the federal Labor government has also committed $300,000, so together we will be able to spend $800,000 and anything that the council puts in as well to develop a community centre in Pasadena that will service in particular Pasadena, St Marys and Panorama and potentially also Bedford Park, over in the member for Davenport's seat. That end of the City of Mitcham area will be well serviced by this, and I am really looking forward to seeing how that plays out.

Also in Pasadena is Springbank Secondary College. The sports complex there is the home of the Sturt Sabres Basketball Club as well. It is used by the school and the club. We committed funding for air conditioning because at the moment there is no air conditioning for the basketball stadium. At particular times of the year, it gets pretty difficult for people to be able to play, and sometimes games are just called off. We are going to put new air conditioning in there and also add solar panels to help deal with running costs, and also it is the environmentally friendly thing to do.

I did a lot of doorknocking across the whole electorate; we doorknocked it all and it was excellent, but I did a fair bit in Mitchell Park, and the good people of Mitchell Park spoke to me a lot about the need for some toilets at Maldon Avenue Reserve. I know toilets are not something people get too excited about—except for the member for Newland; she loves talking about toilets and waste—but we will be putting a toilet into Maldon Avenue Reserve, which will enable people to go there and stay there and use it.

People who use the Linear Park pathway along the edge, if they are going for their bike ride or going for a walk and they really need to go, there will be that option there, which will be beautiful because there is also a great park, great green space and a barbecue. All that is really missing to make it a space where you can spend a number of hours is a loo.

Keeping on toilets, the Tonsley Innovation Precinct is a space that is incredible for business, incredible for study and education, and it is also a space that locals know is where a lot of children learn to ride their bikes. It is a huge, concreted area that is under cover, and so it means a lot of families go there with their children, and just let their children ride around without the risk of any traffic. The only thing they are missing is, you guessed it, toilets. The toilets are closed over the weekend, so we are going to be making sure that public toilets are available to the community so that they can stay there for a bit longer. We will also install some water fountains—not water fountains to look beautiful but water fountains so that people can have a drink while they are there as well.

I have spoken of them previously, but I also want to mention again the Kenilworth Football Club, which will be receiving funding through this budget for their new scoreboard, nets behind their goals, a new playground, ice baths, an outdoor kitchen and a number of facilities that are going to make it a much easier place for the club to be able to operate, which I am really looking forward to. We will also be upgrading CC Hood Reserve in Panorama, and in Panorama and Pasadena we also have included funding in this budget to improve some footpaths and also build new ones, so that it makes it an easier place to get around. I am really proud of this budget, and I am looking forward to voting in support of this bill.

The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson) (17:07): I rise to support this bill and this budget because there is so much in it for the people of South Australia. It is terrific to see a budget that reflects every promise made by Labor Party candidates right around South Australia at the 19 March election.

They were promises gleaned from information we had gathered from the people in our local areas by going out and listening to the people and finding out what it was that was really important, what it was that was lacking in their local areas. Some of these things will be worth tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars, but other things might be as little as $18,000 for an air-conditioning unit at the Willunga Show Hall. All of them are vitally important for people right across the state.

I know that in my own area all of cabinet went out and doorknocked back in December 2016. We doorknocked Aldinga, and we listened to what the people wanted. In the following budget, we did two of the three things they wanted; the first was to build a brand-new school for 1,650 students. I am really happy to say that that opened at the beginning of this year. The other thing the people of Aldinga and Sellicks wanted was the duplication of Main South Road, from Sellicks down to Seaford. What we saw on that project—even though we had fully funded it in the 2017-18 budget and the 2018 Mid-Year Budget Review that came down in December 2017—was a real lack of action by the Liberal government.

They got in, they stole money off the project and they gave it somewhere else (we do not know where it was), they got some federal funding and they said that it was going to be a bigger and better project. Then they came out with their drawings, and there was going to be a new roundabout, there were going to be two lanes in one direction, and one lane in another direction between Aldinga and Sellicks. You were not going to be able to turn right from Aldinga Beach Road to head down to Sellicks and the Victory Hotel and on to Kangaroo Island, Myponga and Yankalilla. It was just so reminiscent of actions by Liberal governments past. They gave us the one-way expressway and thought that we should be happy with that down in the south.

For those four years the Marshall government was in power, we had really once again become the forgotten south. So we had to go in there with a pledge for an extra $125 million to take out their proposed roundabout at Aldinga Road and make it an underpass/overpass to align Aldinga Beach Road and Aldinga Road and to make sure, as any thinking person would, that if you are going to do a proper duplication you have two lanes going both ways all the time. We have had to commit extra money because of the money that was taken out of that project during the time of the Marshall government.

Further south, we will be building three overtaking lanes between Myponga and Cape Jervis. Anyone who has travelled that road will know that it can get a little tight, a little frustrating, for drivers. We have a mix of big freight vehicles taking freight backwards and forwards to Kangaroo Island, and we have tourists. For the last couple of years, we have not had too many international tourists, but they will be back soon enough.

Driving on the wrong side of the road for them can be a bit daunting, so quite often they will be sitting on 70 or 80 km/h, and there are not a lot of really safe places to overtake. I am looking forward to working with the local community to find out where they think these overtaking lanes will be, along with the Department for Infrastructure and Transport, who have the engineers to give us expert knowledge on what should be done.

We did doorknocking in December 2016. We had the school—tick, we delivered it in the 2017-18 budget. We also came up with the money for the duplication of Main South Road. The one thing, which we could not afford at the time and which people also wanted but was third on their list, was an extension of the rail line from Seaford to Aldinga. It was a federal Labor government, with Anthony Albanese as the infrastructure minister, along with a state Labor government, that delivered the electrification and extension to Seaford.

We are keen on extending the rail. There was always a plan, sometime in the future—not the near future but sometime in the future—if the government of the day thought it was appropriate and affordable, to extend the rail line to Aldinga so that there is a corridor in place. In 2018-19, the then Marshall government did a whole lot of community consultation. In every map they put up they had the rail corridor. They had the station on Quinliven Road, in between the brand-new school and the Cardijn College Galilee campus. It was there for everyone to see.

People thought it was a good idea, and people like me put in a submission that you would do a cut-and-cover, so that you would take Quinliven Road and Port Road over the top of the rail line and drop the rail line back down, as it is in Noarlunga and Seaford, so that you could have walkways over the top. You would have a lift to get people up to and down from the platform. Everyone thought, 'Tickety-boo, we like that bit of it. We've got some issues around other parts of the development plan,' and people were able to feed in, either directly at the two consultation sessions or online through the online portal that Renewal SA set up.

All this happened and none of us ever heard anything back about the consultation. We all had a jolly time on the Tuesday night at the library and on the Saturday at the school, but we never heard anything back. Then, last year, I was starting to hear whispers that the place where the proposed stain station would have gone had been sold off to Cardijn College. I could not get a straight answer. I came in here and I asked the minister. I got an evasive answer and was told by the transport minister, who was then in charge of the train network, that it was not his responsibility. He had no idea what was going on. I thought there might have been something that we did not know about, and it took us to get into government.

I want to thank the Minister for Planning for being right across this local issue. Obviously, he must have asked some questions and sure enough the site where the train station might have gone had been proposed to be sold to Cardijn College. We love Cardijn College, a great local school, and we want to make sure that as a government we work with them so they can fulfill their expansion plans because that is really important for the local area. It will probably be behind the school, hopefully, if that works for them, rather than beside it, so we can keep that corridor open.

If you sell off the land that faces Quinliven, it means you would have to take a train and tunnel it under the school and pop it up the other side or just not build the school in the first place. They had also put the land behind the school to the south of the proposed new school building on the market to be covered with houses, which would have meant that we could never do it.

We do not have the $2 billion to build that extension down to Aldinga from Seaford at the moment, but that is not to say that in 10 years' time or 15 years' time or 20 years' time a future government will not. We went to the election with a pledge that we were for the future, and you are not for the future if you allow the present to mess up the plans that people in the future might have. I want to congratulate and thank the Minister for Planning for stepping in and for taking back the corridor so that one day we may have this train extension to Aldinga and perhaps even to Sellicks.

In this year's budget, every promise that we made in the electorate of Mawson was delivered. I want to go through and give a little highlights package. We have $1.3 million for an Aldinga skatepark and $825,000 for Aldinga Sports Park unisex change rooms. I will be at Shark Park tonight. It is schnitty night and it is the draw where we work out who the winner is of the cash prize each week. There will be $150,000 for an Aldinga swimming pool study, and I want to thank all the people who were a part of that group who would love to see a swimming pool in our local area.

The footy and cricket clubs at the McLaren Vale Sporting Complex will get $105,000 for an irrigation upgrade. The Tatachilla Lutheran College to McLaren Vale bicycle and walking path is worth $1 million. It is going to allow a bunch of kids to be able to walk or ride to school. It is not far to go. It is only a kilometre, but it is so dangerous on that road that most of them get dropped out there by their parents or have to catch a bus whereas they will be able to ride now.

There is $3 million for a cycleway shared-use path between Aldinga and Willunga. Kids from Yankalilla Area School were in here on a school excursion and they were a bit grizzly about some of the conditions. I said, 'This is how politics works. Go back to your school and write me letters and tell me what it is that you want, and we will see what we can do.' We promised $200,000 in the lead-up to the election. I got to go down and talk to the kids again and give them an update on what was happening. They get $200,000 for an upgrade.

There is $450,000 for Aboriginal heritage cultural mapping on Western Fleurieu Peninsula, a Cape Jervis traffic management study to make it safer down there at the SeaLink terminal and $50,000 for the Maslin Beach Community Hall upgrade. These community halls are so important to local areas.

At Second Valley, I dressed up as a koala for a quiz night. I went to the bocce night there dressed as the Sultan of Second Valley. It is the place where everyone comes together and has a really good time. They do not have a pub there. They do not have a sporting club or anything like that. They make their own fun around the community club. I reckon the kitchen is the original kitchen from the fifties when the hall was built, so there is $50,000 there. Myponga Memorial Hall, Maslin Beach Memorial Hall, the bowls club at McLaren Vale, Yankalilla Bowls Club, the KI Racing Club and the McLaren Flat Community Club all get some money to upgrade their local facilities, as does the Cape Jervis Progress Association for their clubrooms.

A bunch of kids came to me at the football. A young fellow said, 'Mr Bignell, Mr Bignell! Us kids want new jumps down at the BMX track.' I said, 'Righto Haydo.' Haydo is 11 and his little mate Seth was there. Haydo said, 'My dad built those when he was a kid. He got his shovel out,' and all this sort of stuff, 'and they built them and no-one has repaired them since then.' His dad is in his forties now. I said, 'Alright, Haydo, you send me an email and I will come and have a bit of a meeting with you and your mates.' So he sent me an email. Mum and dad did not even know. He is 11.

Anyway, we go down and we have a meeting at the site. I said, 'The first lesson you are going to learn about wanting to get new bike jumps for your BMX track is patience because we are going into a world of bureaucracy at local government and state government levels and you are going to get so much pushback with, "You can't do this, you can't do that".'

Then we got the mayor down there, the mayor who is now the member for Davenport, Erin Thompson. She came down and some people from the council, and they got on board. We had $15,000 worth of soil donated by Sarah Constructions, who were building the local school. In this budget, I am really pleased that Haydo, Seth and all those young fellows get $20,000 and the council is going to build some better mounds for them.

The kids at McLaren Vale got onto it as well. They saw what was happening at Willunga, so they hit me up and they get $20,000 as well. It is these little things, as well as the big hundreds of millions of dollars projects, that really make a difference in our local community. I love our local community, I love the sporting clubs and I love everyone in them, and I will fight to the bitter end for every single cent I can get for the people of Mawson, the sporting clubs and all the organisations.

The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light) (17:21): I would like to make a few comments in support of the Appropriation Bill. The first thing I would like to point out is that from my point of view the Appropriation Bill is more than just an economic statement. Of course, there are a lot of financials in the budget itself, in the Appropriation Bill, but I think it is also important because it speaks to the priorities and values of the government that delivers that budget. That is very important. This budget is very different from the previous budget.

A future federal Labor budget will be very different from the previous Morrison budget and that is because our values are different and our priorities are different. It is important to understand that when you hand down a budget. It is talking about what is important to the government, how that government sees its community, its society and what sort of society it wants. For example, if you are giving huge tax deductions to multinational companies, as the commonwealth government does, it speaks a lot to your values and what is important, especially when we have people living in substandard aged-care facilities in Australia.

The budget is actually more than just a financial document. It talks about the government's priorities, the government's values and what sort of society it wants. How we prioritise expenditure is very important. From my point of view, the Labor government stands to create a much more fair and equitable society and one which is more compassionate as well. I think this budget does that, and I will provide some details as to how it does that in terms of our priorities and how it prioritises the needs of the most vulnerable in our community to make sure that nobody is left behind. In doing so, this budget also acknowledges that we need to have economic activity to create that wealth so we can redistribute funds to support those in need.

When you look at this budget, the things that come to mind are quite clear: health, education, the environment and jobs. They are the key themes in this budget and they are the things that are dear to Labor values. They also speak to the things we think are most important to ensure that people in our state have a quality of life irrespective of the postcode they live in. This is what this budget does. It delivers health services, improves education opportunities, improves the environment and helps to create jobs in those areas to make sure that every child born in this society and every person has the chance to reach their full potential.

Some of the overviews in terms of health are that we are funding 101 additional doctors and 300 additional nurses. That is important because one of the major issues that we have been dealing with over the last four years is ramping at our hospitals. Building additional ED space is important, but it does not get rid of ramping. Having additional ambos is very important, but it does not get rid of ramping. What gets rid of ramping is having more doctors and nurses to deal with patients who come into the health system and having money to fund beds and the doctors and nurses who look after the people in those beds.

We have also introduced free flu vaccinations, which I think is very important from an equity point of view, to make sure we encourage people to do it, and also because we will hopefully have fewer people in the queues at our hospitals and in our health system as well. It makes good economic and health sense to do that. Of the 326 extra hospital and mental health beds we are going to create over the life of this, there will be 16 additional subacute beds in the Gawler Health Service. Those additional health service beds in the Gawler Health Service mean that when people come to the ED and present to the hospital, they will have a bed and they can be processed. Again, the queueing and the waiting times at our hospital services will be reduced.

The 350 paramedics are very important to make sure that, when things go wrong in your life, you know there will be somebody there in a clinically safe period of time to make sure you get the best possible health care or get to the best possible health facility as soon as possible. Those 350 paramedics are extremely important. I am very happy to hear that some of those 350 will be coming to Gawler. They will be part of a new additional shift, a new unit, in the Gawler ambulance service. We have one ambulance service in Gawler at the moment, so when it is out of town, we have no or limited coverage. People have had to wait for hours.

There has been some evidence to suggest that some lives have been put at risk because of poor response times, not because of the ambos themselves but because the resources are not there. You cannot be in two places at once. If you are ramped at the Lyell McEwin, you are ramped at the Royal Adelaide Hospital or you are transferring a patient from the Gawler Health Service to another health facility, it is just not possible to be in two places at once, so I am very pleased to hear that we are getting an additional full-time unit in Gawler.

In total in terms of health, we will be spending an additional $2.4 billion over the next five years. That is a huge investment in the wellbeing of our community, and we will start tackling those problems we have seen with our health services over the last four years during the life of the previous Liberal government.

Education: most people, I would say, would accept that having a good education can be a life changer. It is simple. It certainly was for me. My opportunity to go to a good public school and go to university made my life different. Without that, I would have a different job, perhaps fewer opportunities and perhaps less income. There are a whole range of things that come from that. Having equal opportunity to access the best possible education is so important.

It is one of the main reasons my parents left Italy, to ensure that we as children had the best opportunities possible, and our education system did that. When I compare my own life with my numerous cousins in Italy—and they are numerous because mum was one of 10 children and dad was one of five children—our lives are very different. Also, the lives of my sisters are very different from those of my cousins in Italy who stayed there.

Education is very important. It is something that I am very supportive of. What I try to do is work with my schools to make sure that every child has the best opportunity to have the best education possible. So what are we doing in that area? We are building five technical colleges to acknowledge that we need a broad range of skills in our community to make sure that the economy works well.

We need a broad range of skills to reflect the abilities and preferences of people in our community. Not everybody wants to go to university. Not everybody thinks that studying economics like I did is exciting. I did, but a lot of other people would not find that exciting, and I can understand that. We need to make sure that people have opportunities to be the best people they can be by providing those different educational opportunities.

We are providing more mental health support in our schools. Those children who are not present at school—and I do not necessarily mean physically present; those children who have some mental health issue or a whole range of other pressures, anxieties, etc., who are not present at school—are not learning. When you speak to teachers, when you speak to young student leaders as I have been, when I engage, for example, my youth advisory panel and we talk about what is happening in their schools, they tell me there is no point in teachers trying to teach when some of their students are not present because of a whole range of issues. This mental health support is so critical to make sure that our young people are fully engaged in their education to get the best they can out of it.

We are also going to provide more support for students with autism, which is very important. Again, this is what I talked about a bit earlier. This budget reflects the sort of society and the sorts of values our party has. We want to make sure that every child, irrespective, has the best opportunity to be the best they can be as a person. That means having access to the right educational services.

The royal commission is to look at how we actually improve our early learning, early education for three and four year olds. The research is quite clear: those children who have better access to early learning opportunities do better through schooling, do better through life, and so we need to make sure that, irrespective of which postcode you live in, you should have access to the best possible early learning opportunities possible. That means also looking at out-of-school hours care.

We need a new educational system, a schooling system that reflects the modern family. We still have a system of education that has not actually changed much in terms of the basic structure since I was a student at school, and that is quite a few years ago. I think that schooling based on models of the 1950s and 1960s needs to change. The world has changed, families have changed, family needs have changed, so we need to make sure that the education system changes and that the way we structure our schools meets the needs of our families in our communities.

We are making a huge investment in TAFE again. It is no secret that TAFE was run into the ground by the previous government. At times, they talked about the competitive model, that TAFE should not have an advantage against the private sector, and they actually put money into the private sector. But I found it curious that the competitive model meant TAFE could not offer programs in certain areas. For example, they could not offer business studies in metropolitan Adelaide. They could not offer a whole range of other programs in certain areas. Only the private sector could. How do you have a competitive model when one of the competitors is actually not allowed to compete in the marketplace?

We are redressing that imbalance again to make sure that we are investing in those areas which are of great need, particularly the caring services. It is no secret that there is a huge shortage of people in the caring service, whether it is in the disability sector or the aged-care sector—a whole range of different caring services. We need to make sure that we have properly trained people in those areas to make sure that the people they are looking after have the best service. We also need to understand that we need to pay these people money too. For the job they do, they do not get rewarded enough. They provide important services and they need to be rewarded for that.

In the environment, there are a whole range of programs that are listed there. I will not go into detail, but there are whole range of things that reflect this government's commitment to the environment, this government's commitment to an understanding that climate change is real and there are things we can do at the local level to reduce our carbon footprint. There are a whole range of things we can do through Landcare programs and other programs that we can have to reduce our carbon footprint and therefore create a cleaner society and one that creates less waste.

There are simple things like the new electric trains, for example. I got one last night on the way home. I was so pleased. It was clean and warm. Electric trains are quieter, cleaner, less costly. They have additional benefits of actually reducing the cost of living for people as well.

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

The Hon. A. PICCOLO: That was on Sunday I did that, yes.

An honourable member interjecting:

The ACTING SPEAKER (Mr Brown): Order!

The Hon. A. PICCOLO: On Sunday morning, I was up and caught the first electric train that started at Gawler Central station. I was there at 6.25 with hundreds of other people. During the day, I think thousands of people came out to see the new electric trains. I then had to come into the city for the official opening, and obviously I had to go back to Gawler again on the train. It was great.

The next thing I have to speak about very quickly in the few minutes I have left is jobs. Jobs are so important, so critical. Our leader has, on a number of occasions, talked about the importance of jobs and the dignity work provides to people's lives. It would not be a Labor government if it did not put jobs as one of its key priorities. The $593 million Hydrogen Jobs Plan is good for the environment, good for industry and good for jobs.

There are a whole range of other programs in terms of arts, music, the Fringe, live music. Housing is another important area, and we are investing $177.5 million over the next four years to build new homes and refurbish existing housing stock to make sure people can get a roof over their heads. We have an $18.6 billion infrastructure program; of that, $7.83 billion will go into roads, which are important. This is not only building important infrastructure but also creating jobs.

At the local level, I am very pleased to say that every commitment I have made to my community will be honoured in this budget. Every promise I made on behalf of the Labor Party, now the Labor government, will be honoured in this budget. There will be $60,000 for disability infrastructure at a playground at Apex Park, and $100,000 for improvements to playgrounds at Bacton Street, Evanston, and Gawler West.

There will be $2.5 million to improve parking and the kiss and drop off zone near Mark Oliphant College to reduce congestion and improve road safety, $30,000 for shade for the playground at Nolan Reserve, Munno Para, to provide a safer playing area, and $380,000 for a pedestrian crossing at Redbanks and Weyland Roads to improve the safety of students from Xavier College—

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. A. PICCOLO: A very important project. There is $600,000 for a new playground at Reid, one of the suburbs of Gawler. That is very important as well because that has poor infrastructure. There is $530,000 to upgrade the Tambelin Station car park for a kiss and drop zone. At the moment, it is just dirt, but we are actually going to get a proper area, and that will promote public transport, which is very important.

There is $250,000 for a veterans' shed or garage at Willaston to be co-located with the Willo's Men's Shed, and there is $4.8 million dollars for netball courts for girls and young women in Gawler who play netball. There are 15 or 16 clubs who play in that association, and it is a very important investment. There is $1 million for the Gawler Soccer Club for a synthetic pitch.

We will also be undertaking a feasibility study to see whether a Barossa tourism train could be a viable option for the future with private investment, and we will also be undertaking traffic management east/west studies for Curtis and Dalkeith Roads to improve traffic management in those areas in my electorate.

It does not stop there: there is more. There is over $2 million for a new SES station in Gawler for community safety, something the Liberals talked about but we are going to do—we are going to actually deliver on that. One thing about this budget is that what we have promised is what we are going to deliver, and that is why we got elected.

Bill read a second time.

Estimates Committees

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Planning) (17:39): I move:

That this bill be referred to estimates committees.

Motion carried.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: I move:

That the proposed expenditures for the departments and services contained in the Appropriation Bill be referred to Estimates Committees A and B for examination and report by 5 July, in accordance with the timetables distributed.

Motion carried.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: I seek leave to incorporate the timetables in Hansard without my reading them.

Leave granted.

APPROPRIATION BILL 2022

TIMETABLE FOR ESTIMATES COMMITTEES

ESTIMATES COMMITTEE A

DAY ONE AT 9.00 AM

Department of Infrastructure and Transport (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Infrastructure and Transport (part)

Department of Energy and Mining (part)

DAY TWO AT 9.00 AM

Department of Primary Industries and Regions

Administered Items for the Department of Primary Industries and Regions

Department of Infrastructure and Transport (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Infrastructure and Transport (part)

Defence SA

DAY THREE AT 9.00 AM

Courts Administration Authority

Attorney-General's Department (part)

Administered Items for the Attorney-General's Department (part)

Electoral Commission of South Australia

Administered Items for Electoral Commission of South Australia

DAY FOUR AT 9.00 AM

Department for Education

Administered Items for the Department for Education

Department for Innovation and Skills (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Innovation and Skills (part)

DAY FIVE AT 9.00 AM

Department for Environment and Water

Administered Items for the Department for Environment and Water

Department for Energy and Mining (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Department for Innovation and Skills (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Innovation and Skills (part)

Defence SA

ESTIMATES COMMITTEE B

DAY ONE AT 9.00 AM

Department of Treasury and Finance

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Department for Health and Wellbeing

Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health

Wellbeing SA

DAY TWO AT 9.00 AM

Department of Human Services (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Human Services (part)

Legislative Council

House of Assembly

Joint Parliamentary Services

Administered Items for Joint Parliamentary Services

State Governor's Establishment

Auditor-General's Department

Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Administered Items for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

DAY THREE AT 9.00 AM

South Australian Tourism Commission

Minister for Tourism

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Administered Items for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Department for Child Protection

Department of Human Services (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Human Services (part)

Department of Infrastructure and Transport (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Infrastructure and Transport (part)

DAY FOUR AT 9.00 AM

South Australia Police

Administered Items for South Australia Police

Department for Correctional Services

South Australian Country Fire Service

South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service

South Australian State Emergency Service

Department of Infrastructure and Transport (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Infrastructure and Transport (part)

DAY FIVE AT 9.00 AM

Department for Trade and Investment

Administered Items for the Department for Trade and Investment

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Attorney-General's Department (part)

Administered Items for the Attorney-General's Department (part)

Department for Innovation and Skills (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Innovation and Skills (part).

Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Administered Items for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Department for Innovation and Skills (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Innovation and Skills (part).

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: I move:

That Estimates Committee A be appointed, consisting of Hon. A. Piccolo, Ms Andrews, Mr Brown, Mrs Pearce, Mr Pederick, Mr Tarzia and Mr Whetstone.

Motion carried.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: I move:

That Estimates Committee B be appointed, consisting of Mr Hughes, Mr Cowdrey, Mr Fulbrook, Hon. J.A.W. Gardner, Ms Hutchesson, Ms Hood and Hon. D. Pisoni.

Motion carried.