Housing Construction

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Leader of the Opposition) (14:17): My question is to the Premier. Has the government overpromised and underdelivered on housing? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA: In the government's media release dated 12 February 2023, it said that construction on the first homes on the Sellicks Beach, Dry Creek and Concordia land release sites could begin in 2024.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (14:17): If the honourable member goes to the Housing Roadmap, on pages 60 and 61 he will see all the timelines set out for—

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: Well, your opposition members were there. They came, they accepted the invitation to sit there for lunch and presumably they were interested in supply. If you look at that document, which is a very public-facing document—we had 1,000 people attending the lunch, one of the biggest industry lunches I think we have had—it sets out the whole roadmap for how we are going to go in housing, including the implementation of important water and sewer infrastructure, and what that sets out for Onkaparinga, Concordia, Sellicks and Dry Creek is the timelines.

So if you go there and have a look at pages 60 and 61, they are all updated in the Housing Roadmap. They are all reported to the industry, to The Advertiser and to public radio, and that was the update. That was the road map. We did that because land release is important, but so is infrastructure, and combining the two things together is incredibly important. I can tell you that in terms of our planning reforms, the pipeline of allotments goes a lot further than those four principal announcements. There is actually another 20-odd thousand allotments that are in the system with code amendments all over the city and the state.