Regional Housing

Mr McBRIDE (MacKillop) (15:04): My question is to the Minister for Housing. Can the Minister for Housing inform the house when the next lot of government houses will be finished and ready for government employees to move into?

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (15:04): The member has caught me on something of a hop, I must confess, on regional housing. We are doing so many housing projects across the state.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my left, be like Harrison, come on.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: I will have to go back and get the exact timing of each of the housing projects finishing for the honourable member. He has been a great advocate for regional housing over some time and, of course, Bordertown was the epicentre of this issue being raised.

I think the last government employee housings to be finished are actually in Ceduna and I think they are finishing around the end of this month, so I will get an exact time and date. Most importantly, the ones in Port Augusta are already tenanted out to police and nurses, and the rest of them in the Riverland, Mount Gambier and the Copper Coast are in the process of being tenanted. Of course, once we complete those homes, we will have a good think about where to next.