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House of Assembly - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
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ADELAIDE OVAL

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:49): My question is to the Premier. Given that the cost of the FIFA-compliant Adelaide Oval upgrade will now be at least $840 million—

The Hon. K.O. Foley: How do you work that out?

Mrs REDMOND: I will explain that in a minute—will the government now work with the opposition in a bipartisan manner and reconsider building a purpose-built FIFA-compliant, roofed city stadium; and, if not, why not? By way of explanation, madam, I will tell the Treasurer exactly how we work it out.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mrs REDMOND: We get $840 million from the $535 million that the state government is now up to, plus the $50 million initial state and federal contribution to the western grandstand, the $5 million for the Stadium Management Authority and media reports of $250 million on top of that for the federal contribution to the FIFA-compliant stadium.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. M.D. RANN (Ramsay—Premier, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change) (14:50): I think that we can now understand where they get their financial briefings from: the Messenger Press. We now finally find out, because it appeared that the Liberals' stadium and the Liberals' hospital proposals—the hospital was like a moving ambulance and the stadium was moving from venue to venue. But now we know, as of today, that the Liberals' proposed stadium, apparently covered for $800 million, was not going to be an upgraded Adelaide Oval but an upgraded Adelaide High oval. That is how ludicrous the opposition is looking.

Clearly, the Leader of the Opposition does not realise that, if we win the 2018 or 2022 World Cup bid, the amount of money the federal government would contribute—and the honourable member opposite has made some claim about the amount—would actually be a contribution to what we have already done. So, basically, it is money off the top.

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