Speed Cameras

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley) (15:17): My question again is to the Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services. What is the criteria for the locations to be decided as part of the 30 new speed cameras on roads? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA: On Sunday 2 June it was announced that a number of Adelaide's arterial roads are set for a shake-up, with 40 km/h zones to be enforced around schools and 30 new speed cameras to be installed over the next four years.

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN (Kavel—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Special Minister of State) (15:18): I thank the member for Hartley for his question.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN: I'm not sure exactly what the frustration is over here on this bench. There was a series of interjections. I am not going to stand on my section 127 rights, so I don't know what happened. Did you not get the invitation to the bucks party, is that what happened? You haven't got the invitation?

Members interjecting:

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN: Unbelievable; absolutely unbelievable. These are most important matters, and I appreciate the question from the member for Hartley. I am sorry to see that his colleagues are not equally as focused on these matters.

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN: I am not going to ask him to withdraw that, but I'm going to give just as good as I got. There is no real focus in here.

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN: Yes, just as good as I got. You know what? We've got the brontosaurus here, we've got the minisaurus; we've got a little Jurassic Park going on here. You are such dinosaurs. It is unbelievable.

The SPEAKER: The minister!

Members interjecting:

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN: You should be focusing on real matters.

The SPEAKER: I warn the minister: in your answers in the past few weeks you have provoked the opposition into making noises and interjections that they otherwise would not be making. I ask you to return to the substance of the answer. If you are finished, we can all end question time and move on to grievances.

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN: I'm only just getting started. It's going to be a long winter for some. Some members, of course, have the opportunity to go to a different hemisphere where conditions are quite different, but in any case—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN: No, I'm not. No, I am very focused on the answer.

The SPEAKER: Minister, you are deliberately defying my request to you to answer the question.

The Hon. D.R. CREGAN: I'm just coming to it, Mr Speaker. I appreciate and respect your encouragement and the focus that you have brought me to with respect to this matter. It is an important matter. The member asks an important question.

There is a consultation process underway between DIT and SAPOL with respect to these important issues. I would anticipate that road fatality, injury, collision statistics, traffic volumes, and a range of other matters would naturally form part of that consultation. The pre-budget announcement has only just been made, the program has only just been funded, and those processes will be underway. I would expect that this is a matter that the shadow minister will want to explore with me in the course of estimates.