Greater Adelaide Freight Bypass

The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Leader of the Opposition) (14:11): My question is to the Deputy Premier. Will the government release the Greater Adelaide Freight Bypass planning study? If so, when, and is there a plan to fund it?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer, Minister for Defence and Space Industries) (14:11): I thank the leader for his question. I am pleased to see the new-found alacrity of members opposite to be talking about freight bypasses and improvements, after the scrapping of the GlobeLink promise that they made to the community of South Australia.

The Hon. V.A. Tarzia: We did the work.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: The member for Hartley says that they did the work. Well, the only work that they did was binning their promise—binning their promise. Of course, as I have been at pains in the past to emphasise, there are already gazetted freight routes for heavy vehicles, including articulated vehicles, to be able to travel around the Adelaide Hills, but we recognise that for a range of reasons some are not taking advantage of that. One of those reasons is that there would ideally be a series of infrastructure upgrades which would better accommodate those heavy vehicle movements. That is why the work that was referred to in the leader's question is being undertaken by the infrastructure department and is being superintended by the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. I am sure he looks forward to having more to say about that, including to this place, in the near future.