Adelaide Beach Management Review

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:21): My questions are for the Attorney-General regarding the management of sand within the scope of the Adelaide Beach Management Review:

1. Does the government have a maximum budget for what it would invest in a solution to replenish the beaches of West Beach and Henley Beach South and, if so, what is it?

2. How much has been expended on the Adelaide Beach Management Review to date, and how much has been paid to the assessment panel conducting that review?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:22): I thank the honourable member for her questions. I don't have that information but I am happy to go away and see if I can find information at this stage, if there is up-to-date information about how much has been expended, but certainly, at the end of the process, I am more than happy to provide that information when it will be more accurately known.

There is ongoing replenishment of sand on Adelaide's beaches, particularly in that northern cell to which the honourable member refers. The autumn program in 2023 (the recent program) included the replenishment of the Semaphore Park dune, with 10,000 cubic metres of sand collected at the Semaphore breakwater, and 15,000 cubic metres of quarry sand delivered to Henley Beach and Henley Beach South.

During that program period I am informed that West Beach received 50,000 cubic metres of quarry sand in May and June this year, and a delivery of a further 50,000 cubic metres of sand will commence in September 2023. The annual sand pumping in the southern cell, involving sand moving from Glenelg Beach to southern beaches in the City of Holdfast Bay, commenced in June 2023.