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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
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Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:37): My question is again to the Treasurer. How much additional funding did the Stadium Management Authority request over and above the additional $85 million state contribution announced by the Treasurer yesterday?

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Federal/State Relations, Minister for Defence Industries) (14:37): Although the leader did all but sit in on my press conference, as certainly her chief adviser did—

Mrs Redmond interjecting:

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: Oh well, if you want to listen in on my press conference, I've got nothing—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: If you've got nothing better to do with your time than—

Mr Williams interjecting:

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: Press conference in secret!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: What I said then was that the figure on the current working diagrams exceeds the allocation that we have made.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Deputy Premier is answering the question.

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: We were sending the message very clearly, as we have been doing for some weeks, that this was going to be a difficult number to land at. In fact, in the briefing from the time between when I got the written briefing on what the final cost was, in excess of what at that time was our initial offer, to when the Premier and I and the Minister for Infrastructure were briefed Monday night, the figure had come back some tens of millions, because they had started some work on paring it back. As I have said before, and as I think was said yesterday by Leigh Whicker and/or Ian McLachlan, they haven't landed a final figure.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! One question at a time.

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: The figure is a small amount above what we—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Does the opposition want this question answered? They are not giving the Deputy Premier much of an opportunity to answer it.

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: I said in the press conference, from memory, that it was in the tens of millions. That figure is being reworked to bring it within the envelope of money that we have made available.

An honourable member interjecting:

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: No, that's $450 million plus 85.

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