House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
2014-06-03 Daily Xml

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Car Parking Levy

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:53): My question is to the Minister for Investment and Trade. Does the minister support the government's proposed car park tax?

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Small Business) (14:53): In the state budget, the government will be announcing a range of measures, and we took the Transport Development Levy to the election. At last count, we have a majority in the House of Assembly.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: I understand today is a tense moment for members opposite, but it's not as if the member for Waite would have told everyone to vote Labor at the last election. He wasn't the one standing there on Friday saying 'vote Labor'. It's not his fault. Don't blame him. There's only one person responsible for all of you sitting over there, and that's the Leader of the Opposition. Don't be angry at us. The Transport Development Levy will be a budget measure and I expect, in the traditions of this house, that it will be a bipartisan measure.