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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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GLENSIDE HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:23): I ask a supplementary question of the Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Given her answer that she is still considering these matters, why then did she agree to proceed to sell to the Premier for $2.5 million the historic buildings to build a new film hub?

The Hon. J.D. LOMAX-SMITH (Adelaide—Minister for Education, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (15:23): I really think the member for Bragg has been arguing about the film hub for longer than one can imagine in a completely misdirected way. That building is one of the more unsuitable buildings for a modern facility. It is an exquisite heritage building. It has a beautiful courtyard and it is very elegant, but it is broken up into multiple smallish rooms and—

Ms Chapman interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. J.D. LOMAX-SMITH: —frankly, it is not suitable as a modern facility for mental health treatment. In fact, if we were going to be accurate, we would say that patients are not actually using that as a mental health facility. It is for office space. The whole design of the campus in terms of a film hub is to bring on to the campus multiple uses that will destigmatise the management and treatment of mental health patients. I know that some opposite would want to go back to the Victorian model, but that is not our agenda.

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