SA Water Infrastructure

Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:33): My question is to the Minister for Housing. When will water infrastructure be delivered to the Sellicks Beach, Dry Creek and Concordia land release sites? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr TELFER: At the Budget and Finance Committee meeting last week the Department for Housing revealed that trunk mains construction would not be considered until 2028 for the land release sites at Sellicks Beach, Dry Creek and Concordia.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (14:33): As I indicated in the house before, we have outlined all of this in the Housing Roadmap, and the reason we did that is that we wanted to be crystal clear with the public about what we are doing in terms of housing supply.

If you go to that document—and I encourage the opposition spokesperson to do that—and look at pages 58 and 59, you will see the projects we are bringing online. We are bringing online Playford Alive, we are bringing online Seaton, we are bringing online Noarlunga. If you want to see slabs down, you can drive in any direction you like and you will find slabs down and you will find the building industry busy. That is one of the reasons the HIA on both policy and outcomes makes us number one in the country.

If you want to talk about the government's code amendments, they are outlined in pages 60 and 61, and we are designing whole suburbs here. Obviously, that requires trunk infrastructure, trunk infrastructure that those opposite did not invest in at all in their entire four years of government—in their entire four years of government. And guess what happens?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my left will come to order. The member for Chaffey is on his final warning. The member for Flinders and the member for Morialta are also on their final warnings.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: Speaker, I will tell you what happens the day they ever form government. They will have a $130 million hole every year in their government because of the stamp duty cuts. They have to fill it some way, and that is by cutting infrastructure.

The SPEAKER: Minister, there is a point of order from the deputy leader.

Mr TEAGUE: Standing order 98(a). The minister needs to answer the substance of the question. Debate and then hypothesising about what this side might do is not answering the substance of the question, which was very specifically about when these water infrastructure—

The SPEAKER: Given one of the projects is in my electorate, I have been listening carefully, and I think the minister is answering the question.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: Of course, these projects rely on big investments in water infrastructure and sewer infrastructure. Good news on Onkaparinga Heights: it has been rezoned, it is currently in land division. The proponents are currently discussing it with council: land division and engineering standards. Both are important things for local government to look at.

This is going to be a whole community of 2,000 homes. As well as SA Water infrastructure, sewer and water are also being accounted for. So you can see the progress there, as outlined in the Housing Roadmap. Those opposite should think about this, because what they have signed up to is this weird concoction in their own minds of cutting taxes but somehow having magical infrastructure appearing while they open up areas like Dublin, which will cost billions, or hundreds of millions of dollars.