Bills

Supply Bill 2025

Second Reading

Adjourned debate on second reading (resumed on motion).

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: Mr Speaker, I draw your attention to the state of the house.

A quorum having been formed:

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer, Minister for Defence and Space Industries, Minister for Police) (15:40): In closing the debate on the bill, can I firstly thank members for their contributions. Contributions on the Supply Bill are often taken as an opportunity by members to reflect on matters concerning the state budget, whether it is priorities of the state budget for funding or whether it is overall budget settings. But I think what is even more beneficial are the contributions that members make with direct reference to their constituencies, to their electorates that they represent here in the house. I have been listening assiduously to members' contributions about matters of importance in West Torrens.

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: The forgotten west.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: The forgotten west, I think it is called, the member for West Torrens' electorate. It has been a great opportunity for me, and I am sure many others, to listen to some of the contributions that members have made, raising in the house some of the issues that their communities are experiencing. It might be matters about the delivery of government services in local communities, it might be the condition of infrastructure provided by the government or supported by the government in their electorate, quite commonly local roads, or it might be some of the drought conditions that particularly those members representing regional communities across South Australia have raised and some of the potential ways in which this place and the government could be helping to address some of the concerns that arise as a result of those drought conditions.

I hope it is, then, an opportunity for all members to reflect on those contributions, particularly, not just in the context in the coming weeks of the release of the government's fourth state budget of this term but also in the lead-up to the next election how some of those contributions might allow those members and potentially the government to reflect on how they might respond to the concerns that have been raised. Again, thank you to members for their contributions. I commend the bill to the house.

Bill read a second time.

Third Reading

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer, Minister for Defence and Space Industries, Minister for Police) (15:43): I move:

That this bill be now read a third time.

Bill read a third time and passed.