Northern Economic Plan

The Hon. J.A. DARLEY (15:40): Are there milestones for the various aspects of the northern Adelaide plan? Can the minister indicate when the first milestone is due for completion and describe what the plan entails?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy) (15:40): I thank the honourable member for his question. I do not have all of them in front of me, but there are a wide range of projects that the Northern Economic Plan Leaders Group will be looking at and that includes things that are already planned like the Northern Connector. The leaders group will be looking to make sure that as much as possible is leveraged for the local community in terms of jobs and in terms of supplying those contracts.

There will be regular reviews of all the projects that come under the auspices of the Northern Economic Plan, and I will be happy to update the honourable member as we go through those projects and they are updated. I thank the honourable member for, even in the last couple of weeks, bringing to me a number of suggestions for numbers of ways we could help a number of projects that constituents have talked to him about.