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ADELAIDE OVAL

Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:15): My question is again to the Treasurer. Why was the original estimate of the cost of the Adelaide Oval upgrade announced on 2 December 2009 considered more reliable than the 19 February estimate of $469 million—excluding car parking, the footbridge and the western grandstand—that figure being established after weeks of costings work by the Stadium Management Authority?

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Federal/State Relations, Minister for Defence Industries) (14:15): That issue has well and truly been canvassed, and I recall—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: I am sure you will put that question to Mr Whicker and Mr McLachlan when you have them before your committee. It is a legitimate question to put to them, because it is not a government project. I recall a period during the election campaign of the great debate between the shadow treasurer and myself. I should have mentioned this yesterday, but at that point the shadow treasurer asked me, publicly, in the debate, whether I would allow him a briefing from the Stadium Management Authority. I responded: 'Absolutely. You can have a full briefing from the SMA, provided, of course, you allow me to get a full briefing from your architects and your so-called cost estimators on your stadium.' He froze, rejected that offer and never took up my offer. It was a simple offer.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: A simple offer: you go along and talk to the Stadium Management Authority and you let me talk to Mr Pruszinski—a designer of houseboats—and whoever did your so-called cost estimates. The shadow treasurer, of course, wouldn't have a bar of it, because we well know that whatever error lies on this side of the chamber in my area—

Mr WILLIAMS: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: Point of order. The Treasurer will sit down.

Mr WILLIAMS: The Treasurer is clearly debating and not answering the question.

The SPEAKER: Yes; I do uphold that point of order, Treasurer.

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: Just moving on, we knew absolutely that your costings would not bear any scrutiny whatsoever.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

Mr WILLIAMS: Point of order. The Treasurer is clearly ignoring your ruling.

The SPEAKER: I don't think he has given me enough time to decide that yet. I am sure he was going on to the substance of the question.

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY: The point I was making was that we would love to see their costings. We have never seen them. We have never seen the Liberal Party's costings but, just in reference to the suggestion earlier about whether or not Mr Demetriou may have been paid a bonus, as my good friend and colleague the Transport Minister mentioned, if he got a bonus for $450 million from our offer, imagine the whopper of a bonus he would have got with your $800 million.

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