Black Electorate

Ms THOMPSON (Davenport) (14:30): My question is to the Premier. How is the Malinauskas government delivering improvements to transport and infrastructure for the electorate of Black?

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:31): I thank the member for Davenport for her question. As the member for Davenport probably understands better than most, there is a massive investment in state government infrastructure around transport in the state of South Australia: public transport but also, critically, road transport and road infrastructure in metropolitan Adelaide. Of course, the signature piece of that policy—and it's difficult just to point to one—is the north-south corridor where the state government is investing north of $13 billion into the largest infrastructure project this state has ever seen by completing the two tunnels between the Torrens and Darlington.

That north-south corridor project will completely re-augment the way that traffic moves in our city, provided you can get access to it. What the member for Davenport I think rather skilfully has advocated for, and what is now being seen delivered, is a range of people in parts of southern Adelaide being able to access the Southern Expressway, which was famously fixed and duplicated after being a one-way expressway. The architects of the one-way expressway policy we won't mention, but it wasn't us. Now that it has been fixed, we need to see as many people getting access to it as possible.

For residents in suburbs such as Happy Valley, Aberfoyle Park, Flagstaff Hill, O'Halloran Hill, it isn't particularly easy to get on the Southern Expressway unless, of course, we ensure that Majors Road has an interchange where you can get on and off the Southern Expressway. The member for Davenport has been advocating for this for some time, and I know she is very pleased to see that project progressively being delivered. I was down there recently and saw that work in train.

We took that policy to the election. It was a commitment and we are delivering upon it. You could have knocked me over with a feather, though, given that the former member for Black—and he is now the former member for Black—was such a strident advocate of getting this done before they got into government. Then they got into government and they dropped the policy like a gun and started arguing against it. So now we've got a piece of infrastructure that is being delivered that doesn't enjoy bipartisan support. The tunnels, I understand, enjoy bipartisan support but not the Majors Perry—not the Majors Road project, sorry. So—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: You're putting it On My Mind.

Mr Telfer:Hot N Cold.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: That's right. So Majors Road is being delivered and, of course, what the Leader of the Opposition will not be telling—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my left!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —constituents in the seat of Black over the course of the next four weeks is that he opposes that project. The Coalition, those opposite, oppose the project. What are they in favour of? They want the state government to spend more money as part of their campaign for Black.

Today, the Leader of the Opposition was in the media championing the cause for Jetty Road, Glenelg. They want to see the state government subsidise the project. So the Liberal Party today called on the state government to invest in Jetty Road, Glenelg, presumably on the back of the advocacy of their candidate for the seat of Black—and I understand her fascination with Jetty Road, Glenelg, given the fact that she is the mayor from Glenelg and lives in Glenelg—but let me tell you, the contrast is stark because, just like the member for Davenport, the Labor candidate for Black wants to see Majors Road delivered so that the constituents in the seat of Black can get access to the north-south corridor. They are for Jetty Road; we are for Majors Road.