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The Hon. F. PANGALLO (14:51): Just for clarification, Treasurer, I said Mr Milisits told me he was told no work would begin there for at least 10 years. I will clarify when he was told that and I will bring that back to the house. I thank you for the reference to the Queen of Angels as well, Treasurer. I will put that down as a miracle for our first saint, Mother Mary MacKillop.

The PRESIDENT: And the question? The Hon. Mr Pangallo, you have a supplementary question?

The Hon. F. PANGALLO: I do.

The Hon. R.I. Lucas: He was warming up to it.

The PRESIDENT: Yes. Well, he needs to cool down now and ask the question.

The Hon. F. PANGALLO: I am warming up to it. It's only just down the road. The question is: in the event that Mr Milisits' bakery does need to be demolished in some part, would the government consider a full relocation of the business? What level of compensation or assistance will be provided to longstanding and successful businesses like his?

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (14:52): There are well-established procedures and practices that governments, both Labor and Liberal, are required to establish. I think they have been changed in recent years as a result of the work of a select committee of this particular chamber. But at this stage, as I said, let's move along a path of firstly finding what the final design is, what the businesses and individual residents will be, and then once we have established that we can decide whether or not iconic businesses or, indeed, with great respect, because I am a lover of the Vili's product but there might be other businesses whose products—

The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink: Vegans.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: They might be vegans and I might be not as enamoured towards their particular products, but nevertheless they should be treated fairly by government processes, whatever their products are. Let's at least establish the facts firstly. I am just asking the Hon. Mr Pangallo and others to assist the process in terms of not fanning the flames of concern until we get to a stage where something is actually either highly likely or going to be the case. Once that's confirmed, for all businesses and individual residences, there are well-established processes in relation to the acquisition and compensation procedures.

People are not always happy with them, as we have had aired publicly on a number of occasions, but they are well-established practices and processes utilised by both the former Labor government and by the current Liberal government.

The PRESIDENT: A very short supplementary, isn't it, the Hon. Mr Pangallo?