CFMEU

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Leader of the Opposition) (14:46): My question is to the Premier. Will any South Australian government projects be delayed as a result of today's CFMEU rally? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA: It has been reported today that work has stopped today on the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:46): The work that most recently occurred at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital was of course the opening of a brand-new emergency department, and it is now well and truly up and running. I had the great pleasure of opening that facility along with the health minister and a suite of western suburbs MPs a number of weeks ago. There is another piece of work following that at The QEH: in the location where there is the old emergency department, we are now using that for a facility that, to explain it, is a western suburbs equivalent of the facility at Sefton Park.

That is a piece of work that is ongoing, and my office and I have received no advice from the builder there to suggest that that work is anything but on track. It's another example of the comprehensive strategy that this government has in putting more capacity into our health system. We are not making the mistakes of the past of opening one facility over here, only to close the facility behind it. What we are doing is actually establishing the capacity of the system that other governments before had failed to do.