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House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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ST CLAIR LAND SWAP

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (15:06): My question is to the Minister for Health. Given that the St Clair land swap is part of the government's 30-year plan, which was agreed to by the cabinet of which he is a minister, how can the minister now review this decision?

The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts) (15:06): I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. The minister responsible for reviewing council decisions in relation to the revocation of land is the minister for local government. She has asked me on this occasion, by way of delegation, to review that decision. The matter, as the leader would know, went to the courts. The minister—

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The Hon. J.D. HILL: I have no idea what he said, but it interrupted—

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley!

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. J.D. HILL: This is Brutus over there; that's right, Brutus would know.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.D. HILL: We will not get into Cleopatra or Mark Antony. I think that the members opposite may have a misunderstanding as to the requirement of the minister for local government or her delegate in this case. The job of that person is to look at the decision-making process and the decisions of the council as set out in the legislation. I have had advice as to the function that I have to fulfil, and that is the function that I have to fulfil. The parliament gave the responsibility to do this, to go through the process of evaluating the revocation process, to the minister. That is what the parliament did. There is no other way of doing this other than to have the minister fulfil this responsibility.

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