House of Assembly Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1) 55 1 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Question Time University Merger University Merger The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER House of Assembly Morialta Deputy Leader of the Opposition University Merger The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:20): One further supplementary to the Treasurer or the Premier: can the government rule out that that contribution would be used to fund staff redundancies at the two existing universities? The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN House of Assembly Lee Treasurer University Merger The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer) (14:20): Again, we haven't got a decision from the universities so we are talking about hypotheticals but I can't imagine that we would look to commit any of our funding for that sort of purpose. I suspect in the alternative what the government—I don't suspect: I know that our thinking has been if the two universities were to make a decision separately that they wanted to pursue this, if we make any contribution it would be in the effort to support such a merged institution delivering over and above what the two separate entities have been able to do themselves separately to date and I don't see us specifically funding staff redundancies would fit into that line of thinking.