Women's and Children's Hospital

The Hon. F. PANGALLO (14:39): Can the minister confirm that an architectural firm has already been engaged to oversee the model and design work, and it has in fact started on the designs of the new Women's and Children's Hospital? Where are they based, and how much are they getting paid?

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! I call the minister.

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:40): I thank the honourable member for his question.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: I think the Hon. Mr Pangallo would like to hear the answer, as most of us would. The minister.

The Hon. E.S. Bourke: I think the brief was: find a different plan to Labor's.

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Hon. Ms Bourke is out of order.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: What the honourable member's question highlights, and the opposition's response to it indicates, is that they weren't listening to my previous answers. I have already referred to this team. This is the design team for the new Women's and Children's Hospital that was appointed in March 2020. It includes architects, engineers and cost consultants. Their work is crucial because it forms the basis of the capital and operating cost estimates which will feed into the final business case.

In terms of the composition of that design team, I am told that the design team was appointed in March. The design team consists of A+, which apparently is a corporate name for a group which consists of Woods Bagot, Bates Smart, Jacobs and BDP—they will be leading the architectural design. WSP in conjunction with Irwinconsult, BCA and Lucid will lead the engineering design, and Rider Levett Bucknall will develop the cost modelling for the new Women's and Children's Hospital.

We are, in a methodical, workmanlike way, delivering on our commitment to have an iconic, integrated Women's and Children's Hospital on the North Terrace site. We are definitely well on the way to burying the Labor Party and their failure to stand by a much-loved South Australian institution. They wanted a children's hospital condemned to decay on the North Adelaide site and a women's hospital where you had mothers and babies separated by suburbs.

The Hon. I.K. Hunter interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order, the Hon. Mr Hunter! The Hon. Mr Pangallo, do you—

The Hon. F. PANGALLO: I do have another supplementary.

The PRESIDENT: Make this the last one.