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Appropriation Bill 2017

Appropriation Grievances

Debate resumed.

Ms SANDERSON (Adelaide) (20:53): I rise to speak predominantly about the banking tax that the government is planning to implement that the Liberal Party is planning to block. I put a post up on Facebook to give the constituents and the people of Adelaide the right to have a say on this terrible banking tax, unlike the government which has not actually consulted with anyone—not the businesses, not the people. Not even their own advisers were consulted on this terrible and very damaging tax. I will read out a few comments, including this from one of my constituents:

It is very rare for me to comment or get involved in political or policy issues with the one obvious exception being the O-Bahn. However, I do feel strongly about the bank tax and believe it is essential that the Liberal Party moves to block it in the upper house. I understand the convention about passing budgets but don't believe there is any reason that precludes voting against one specific budget measure. This tax is simply wrong and will make South Australia a laughing stock.

A further comment is:

I support any action against the banking tax. We already have one at a federal level and the banks have already said they will pass it on to customers. Doing it at a state level, too, is just hitting people twice. Banks are only ever going to look after their own profit margins and shareholders won't accept a loss that would impact their share prices. People who can ill afford it will once again be hardest hit.

Further comments are:

Banks are owned by super funds, and super funds managed funds for every worker in the land. Bank tax will affect dividends into super funds. Whether you vote or right or anywhere in between, the proposed bank tax affects everybody. It will no doubt affect investment and lost job opportunities in the South Australian economy that is already the worst performing in the nation.

Here are some further comments:

This extra bank tax is very bad for the state as it will be passed on to all, including the poor. The banks pay $12 billion in tax and 85 per cent of their profits to shareholders, which are lots of super funds and small investors like mum and dads. If anyone thinks this is good, they need their head read. I highly recommend you vote against this decision. Vote no.

This is a shortsighted, desperate and mischievous tax. It has been said many times these tax will impact thousands of personal and business clients and shareholders and ward off potential South Australian investors. The proposed tax is a declaration that this current government does not reward success. The comments about this tax from the Labor government are mischievous because they prey on the ignorance of the general public who don't understand the business of banking in relation to the balance sheet profit generation and redistribution of funds. I hope the opposition opposes this tax.

This is just a tax on success. What business comes next? Insurance? Adding a new state-based tax to banking is totally insane and misguided. It's a cash grab iron from an out of touch and totally out of control government clique of clowns. South Australia is in deep, deep trouble and only a totally new government has any chance of saving us from hell.

I am dead against the tax. I am no longer an employee of a bank, so I'm not fighting for my job, but this tax is merely game playing. The real damage will be what it will do to this state , to the shareholders, to the day-to-day employees trying to keep a job, allowing for growth in the state via jobs in this industry, having flow-on effects to the customers, to businesses and to competitiveness. Do you remember the FIDs and BADs tax? Well, I have been in the finance industry for a long time and one was a federal tax and the other a state tax. Well, at the time, South Australian customers would open accounts interstate—for example, Central Queensland—to avoid the tax for the pleasure of depositing or withdrawing their own cash. Please, Rachel, be the voice of reason and tell Labor they are on a real loser here. Their mismanagement has led to the loss of jobs and they are being desperate, so of course the banks are an obvious target as they make good profits to keep our supers, shareholders and bank jobs going.

No economy ever taxed itself into prosperity. Desperate acts of desperate men. No, I am not in favour.

The profits the banks make get passed on to the shareholders. Virtually everyone has a superannuation fund that has bank shares, so basically it's just another poorly thought-out and ill-conceived tax on the general public.

Against any measure that makes us less competitive, we need to be the cheapest state in everything and especially making this state the cheapest to do business and employ people. It's time to slash government waste. It's time to have our finances independently audited. It's time to cut regulation. It's time to make WorkCover the cheapest in the country. It's time to have less government think-tanks and consultants. Stop telling a store owner when it can open. Stop local councils having rules making it difficult to run a business.

It's pure and simple, Rachel. A state-based bank tax is a recipe for a failed economy. Reject this or face the electoral consequences. Everyone knows the banks will pass this impost on to their customers and/or shareholders and, hey, that's us. Reject Labor's insane economic logic, please.

More taxes, too many taxes. Many are immoral. This is just another tax, but there will be a flow-on to bank customers. You can bet on it. The banks and their shareholders won't wear the extra costs themselves. It's not in their nature.

There were just so many, many comments on Facebook, and those are just some of the comments that were against this absolutely toxic tax. The reason that Labor is putting in this toxic tax is that they are completely unable to run within their own budget. Their overruns are causing them these issues so that they have to find money. We know that they have already sold the lotteries and the Motor Accident Commission. They are selling the Lands Titles Office, and many of my constituents are very concerned about their data and personal information being sold off to overseas companies.

Let me talk about the sale of the forests in the South-East that was recently in the paper. In 2012, treasurer Snelling at the time, despite pre-2010 stating that there would no sale of any assets, sold 100 years of forward rotations of the South-East forests for only $670 million. At the time, the Liberal opposition claimed that it was worth between $950 million and $1.2 billion. The forestry experts said it was being sold for at least $500 million below its value. At the time, the forests contributed around $30 million per annum to state revenue and to our budget, which over 100 years is around $3 billion.

Five years later, we see in the paper that the purchaser has posted a $125.5 million profit in one year with their plantation earnings, and it will likely have paid the whole asset off by mid-2019, only seven years after purchasing it. You can see that we are in this pickle because this government undersells things, does not know how to run the economy, has never run a business in its life and has no idea how to run the state. At the time of the sale of the forests, there were hundreds of job losses and property prices in the South-East dropped. I even had people contacting me in Adelaide saying that they were wanting to move into a retirement village; however, the bottom had dropped out of the market so they could not sell their homes, so they could not move.

There are now high levels of unemployment, and we know that in the South-East there are high levels of drug use, domestic violence and crime, which we all know come as a result of job losses and downturns in the economy. This was instigated by the Labor government's desperation in selling off the forward rotations. We also see now that the government is trying to sell off the administration building and the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site. We should have had an announcement by 30 June, which we are still waiting to hear.

This government likes building shiny things and tries to convince people, by splashing money around, to vote for them, but we need consistent economic growth, not project by project, shiny new thing by shiny new thing, and then we have a valley of death in the middle where we lose all our workers and jobs. We need to spend money on creating jobs and opportunities not buildings. We need to focus on service not buildings. We have new hospitals, but we have no doctors, nurses and specialists. We heard recently of people who died because we did not have specialists in the right areas, so we need to stop only building shiny new buildings and worry about servicing our community.

Mr DULUK (Davenport) (21:03): 'Sam Duluk, he works for a big bank.' That was the literature that the ALP put out on polling day in my by-election. They did a precis of me and my opponent, and my crime was that I worked for a big bank. At the time, I was just a humble business bank manager at the ANZ bank, a bank that employs thousands of South Australians and tens of thousands of Australians, as all the big banks do in South Australia and Australia. They employ thousands of South Australians. They employ part-time—

The Hon. J.J. Snelling interjecting:

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!

Mr DULUK: They employ part-time mum-and-dad tellers in suburban branches, they employ hardworking people in the community who work for these banks, and they spend and donate tens of millions of dollars per annum to the community. I am sure the Westpac helipad will be at the NRAH as part of the health minister's new project. The banks are an important part of the community, but the Labor Party hate the banks.

They hated the banks in the eighties and nineties and that is why we had the State Bank, and of course today they hate the banks in this state budget as well, and they hate people who work for banks. They hated me on my election day, and they tried to defame me for working for a big bank, but that did not work. The people of my electorate saw that there is actually nothing wrong with working for a big bank.

The Hon. J.J. Snelling interjecting:

Mr DULUK: There is nothing wrong with working for a big bank. Of course, in the context of this debate, and in the state budget, this is not about me defending the big banks, or about the Liberal Party being friends with the bank. It is not about the bank tax that will actually hurt investment in South Australia. It is just about tax. It is about tax, it is about jobs and, of course, it is about this state budget.

Those opposite have sold almost all that they can sell in order to prop up their budget. They sold the Motor Accident Commission, they sold the rotations in the forests, they have done what they can where they can. They have this big hole to plug in their pre-election state budget, and who do they go to? Instead of making hard decisions, instead of making the right structural decisions over the last 15 or 16 years that have been required for South Australia, they go after the big bad banks, and it is an absolute disgrace by those opposite. It completely misunderstands what tax is about, how an economy works, and what the main drivers of an economic system are. If we do not have a strong banking sector, we do not have a strong economy, and that is absolutely what we need in South Australia.

Taxing those engines of investment, of decision-making, is not where we need to be at all, and it is not going to solve the problem that we are facing in South Australia, with this job crisis that we have. The headline budget is all very sexy and it all seems to add up nicely. There is a nice surplus there and there is a tax on the bank, which everyone opposite loves, but when you delve into those budget numbers, which we will a bit more as estimates come on, you actually see the real numbers in this budget after 16 years of hard Labor.

I digress for a moment because, on the way back to the chamber, I called into FIVEaa this evening. I was talking to Ted from Salisbury who was calling in. He was saying that you cannot trust the Liberals and give Labor one more go. This was with Andrew Reimer about an hour ago. I said, 'Ted, Labor have put in 16 years of hard Labor. It's actually time to give the Liberals a go because we have the right policy settings that will benefit South Australia. We have the policy settings that will change and decrease unemployment in South Australia.'

At the moment, unemployment is trending at 7.1 per cent—the highest in the nation. That is the legacy of those opposite. That is the legacy of 16 years of Labor. In relation to underutilisation, 16.6 per cent of the labour force is either unemployed or underemployed. That is the legacy of 16 years of hard Labor. Jobs growth has been about 1.9 per cent since 2015. Nationally, it is 3.7 per cent. That is the legacy of 16 years of hard Labor. Jobs growth predicted in this year's budget is 1 per cent. So, we have this huge $19 billion state budget.

This is the jobs budget that is going to save South Australia for the third year in a row but, of course, this huge jobs budget can only provide 1 per cent job growth over the next 12 months, whereas jobs growth nationally is chugging along at a very respectable 3.7 per cent, which is testament to a lot of the good work of the federal government. Jobs growth predicted by the SA Centre for Economic Studies is 0.75 per cent in 2017-18, and again 0.75 per cent in 2018-19. Net interstate migration is 6,484 people lost interstate in the last year of 2016.

This evening, before coming back to the house, I had the opportunity to attend a citizenship ceremony in Blackwood, right in the heart of my electorate and the new electorate of Waite, and it was fantastic to see so many people becoming new citizens and choosing my community to live in. There was one person with whom I spoke after the ceremony. He told me that he lives in Adelaide, but his daughter has gone to Melbourne to study. So, we even have new Australians who have been here for four or five years, who want to stay in South Australia but the children are already leaving and going to Melbourne and Sydney. They are part of that exodus. We cannot even keep new migrants in South Australia and new Australian citizens in our community at the moment.

As I said before, in relation to economic growth, 1.9 per cent is our gross state product. It is 2.8 per cent nationally. That is the result of 16 years of hard Labor. Net debt is $13.8 billion in 2017-18 and expected to peak at almost $15 billion in 2019-20. That net debt is costing us about $717 million per year to service that debt. That is $717 million of interest that we pay on that debt that cannot be spent on hospitals, roads, schools and public transport because we are servicing Labor's debt that they have racked up after 16 years of hard Labor.

One of those big, bad banks put out the CommSec report, which ranks South Australia seventh out of eight jurisdictions in terms of economic performance. I assume we cannot trust the report because, of course, it has been put out by a big, bad bank that does not like South Australia, if you are to believe what the Treasurer and the Premier were saying today. Property rates and charges are going up another 2.9 per cent. SA's share of Australian economic output was only 6 per cent. Our population sits at about 7 per cent. This is the sober reality of what we are seeing at the moment. This is the sober reality of the Treasurer's hard work.

We have seen private capital expenditure in SA remaining restrained and even stagnant, and of course we know that private investment is the stimulus for employment and growth. Private investment generates jobs and it generates economic activity. A disincentive to investment in any business—and anyone will tell you and the member for Flinders will tell you—would be high rates of tax. A bank tax would be a disincentive to do business in South Australia. High energy costs are a huge disincentive, especially if you are a manufacturer or you are running a pub, or even if you are running a local sandwich shop on a main strip anywhere in South Australia it is a huge disincentive to investment.

We have some of the worst education outcomes at the moment in South Australia. In the long run, that means we are going to see an exodus of people, and of course that is a disincentive to investment. Our population growth has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade. Low population growth in turn becomes a disincentive for investment. But something like the bank tax, as we know, is a huge disincentive, especially in a jurisdiction such as South Australia. So not a federal bank tax but a state bank tax imposed only in South Australia is a disincentive to investment because it allows capital outflow. Of course, we know that capital is most important.

As I was driving this evening, I was listening to the Premier on 729 ABC and he was talking about the wonderful investment from the UK and overseas conglomerate to bail out Arrium, and rightly so, as it is fantastic. Foreign investment is most important, and it is foreign investment and all types of investment that help our industry grow, so we should welcome foreign investment and we should welcome all types of investment in South Australia in South Australian jobs. By having a bank tax, it is actually a tax on investment.

If we want to turn around our fortunes, if we want to increase economic activity, if we want to keep South Australians in South Australia, having their families and buying houses and enjoying the beautiful lifestyle we have, then we have to do everything we can not to have those disincentives on investment. This is not about us on this side of the house being great friends with the banks and these big scary people, as the Treasurer and the Premier would have us believe. This is about doing all we can to ensure that we have fantastic investment in South Australia. And bad taxes are bad for investment.

Mr TRELOAR (Flinders) (21:13): Well, what a week it has been. We had the budget handed down—

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: It's not over yet.

Mr TRELOAR: It is not over yet; no, it is not. The debate on the budget continues with the grievance debate this evening and many more excellent contributions in regard to this. The budget was handed down and the Labor government promised a jobs budget yet again. I think every time I have spoken to this Appropriation Bill in the eight years that I have been sitting here, the Labor government have delivered what they have called a jobs budget. Of course, calling it something does not necessarily make it happen.

Unfortunately, I am remembering back to 2010 when the Labor government promised 100,000 new jobs as part of their election platform, and they have fallen, by our calculations, about 80,000 short—nowhere near what they were anticipating, expecting or promising the people of South Australia. Instead, the government has delivered new taxes and higher charges which, of course, is the last thing South Australia needs. There is no doubt that our state economy is struggling, but the $370 million state bank tax will not deliver jobs—not one job—or relief for households struggling with the cost of living. That is why we as an opposition have taken a position to oppose the state bank tax.

As much as the government would have you believe otherwise, this tax and our position on this tax is not about the banks. The government would have you believe that it was the lobbying efforts and a close association with the banks and the business community that have led us to take our position. That is actually not so. It is not about the banks; it is about the tax. South Australians do not need any more tax. They do not need one more tax. It is not going to deliver one more new job.

We see the government in yet another taxpayer-funded advertising campaign that the South Australian economy is transitioning. There is no doubt that it is transitioning—we are moving away from our traditional manufacturing base. Once upon a time, South Australia and Adelaide were the home of whitegoods manufacturing in Australia. Those days have gone, and of course Holden is about to close. Come October this year, there will be yet another business closed. This time a significant stalwart of the South Australian manufacturing industry will be closing and there will be much unemployment as a result. So transitioning to what? Who knows?

Fifteen per cent of this state's workforce is engaged and employed by the government. I fully understand that we all need nurses, schoolteachers and policeman; in fact, my wife is a nurse and one of that 15 per cent. Another 15 per cent of South Australia's population relies on welfare in some form or another, so 30 per cent of Australia's working age population rely on the government either for their employment or their support.

It is hard to remain positive about this budget. There is nothing really in the budget to drive economic recovery, and there is certainly not too much in it for regional South Australia. I will come to that shortly. You cannot tax your way to prosperity, but it seems to me that this government thinks that that is what you can do. It is a high taxing, high spending government. We have seen it time after time after time, budget after budget after budget, with things such as the emergency services levy, high stamp duty, high water rates and high electricity rates feeding into an extraordinarily high cost of living and going towards making our state uncompetitive.

I have said in this place before that if we are going to compete on the world market—which we do and, in essence, our state has reverted to a primary production base with our wheat, wool, meat and wine grapes all exported—and compete with other exporters on the world market, the global market, we need to be competitive. Anything that stands in the way of that competitiveness has an impact on those producers who are driving production in this state and, in fact, through exports bringing in new money to our economy.

I mentioned unemployment, which remains stubbornly high at 6.9 per cent, I understand, and 7.1 per cent seasonally adjusted, and continues to remain the highest unemployment rate in this state. There are parts of this state and parts of this city where generational unemployment has become ingrained. It is a sad fact, and unfortunately these people do not have a lot of prospects in the years to come. There can be nothing more insidious than generational unemployment and what it does to families, communities, etc.

The government would have you believe that the Liberal Party is bereft of policies. That is not so. We have already released 40 policies in the prelude to the March 2018 election and we have certainly seen some lines drawn in the sand this week. We have Globe Link and Infrastructure SA, whereby that board will set strategies and priorities in relation to infrastructure spending in this state. It is so critical that infrastructure be judged on its merits and not just on which particular marginal electorate might benefit from expenditure on infrastructure.

Certainly, in relation to infrastructure, we have had a bit of a hiccup this week in the electorate of Flinders in relation to the port at Thevenard. I will talk more about that tomorrow in my grievance, but it is a prime example of what can happen when infrastructure is neglected in this state. I understand that it is not always the responsibility of government, but private companies, as well as government, have neglected strategic investment into infrastructure. We will be establishing a productivity commission and we will be releasing many more policies before the March 2018 election.

Regional South Australia faces major challenges, such as high unemployment and population loss, and this supposed jobs budget fails to deliver for families and businesses. Much of the state's prosperity comes from regional South Australia, and this state budget does very little to assist businesses to address the economic issues our communities are facing. There are key transport freight routes across our regions, and yet there is no extra funding in this budget for regional roads despite a $1 billion road maintenance backlog in South Australia. According to the RAA, anything up to $400 million of that backlog is estimated to be in regional South Australia.

On the upside, I am pleased to see that there is money in the budget for the wastewater treatment plant in Port Lincoln. By my calculations, I combine two budget lines: the Port Lincoln wastewater treatment plant sludge treatment upgrade, at a total cost of $16.1 million in the out years, and the Port Lincoln wastewater network upgrade project, at a total cost of $5.144 million. That is a total of just over $21 million. These lines both appear under SA Water major projects and are estimated in the out years.

My concerns regarding this facility were around the capacity of the wastewater treatment plant in the long term, in particular to effectively accommodate large volumes of salty wastewater from fish processing. As we know, Port Lincoln is the home of the tuna industry in Australia. I am led to believe that it is home to the largest fishing fleet in the Southern Hemisphere. As a result, many of the fish caught are processed locally in Port Lincoln, and so they should be. There is a big demand on electricity—electricity costs are rising for these processors—but an ongoing issue has been the treatment and disposal of the wastewater coming from not only the town itself but from the fish processing plants.

By definition, fish processors dispose of salty water, and that has to be managed, treated and brought to a point where it can be let go into the ocean proper or reused across bowling greens and golf clubs. I am pleased to see that. Other things I noticed in the budget are that there is ongoing budget support for the New Horizons soil program and also a $50 million five-year bilateral agreement between the GRDC and the South Australian Research and Development Institute, which all should go towards increasing productivity for our primary producers.

Time expired.

The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light) (21:23): I would like to say a few things in concluding this debate about the budget and the various budget measures and perhaps provide some reflection on what has been said. I would also like to provide some insights into one of the key things I think is part of this debate on how taxes, used responsibly, can actually be used to create new activity and also new jobs and support business.

I completely reject the view that taxes are in and of themselves an evil thing and that we are a high-taxing state, which, by international standards, we are not. In fact, the Leader of the Opposition in his debate earlier today talked about the falling receipts of payroll tax. There are falling receipts of a whole range of stamp duties, etc. On the one hand, we are the state with the fastest increasing taxes, and yet all these other taxes are reducing. They are reducing because already as a state we have reduced the rates of taxation in a number of areas. We are making sure that the burden of taxation falls on those who can most afford it. We are moving taxes away from small business and onto big businesses, especially the big banks.

The Liberal Party's defence of big banks is, quite frankly, nothing short of embarrassing. What the big banks have done in this debate in some way says a lot about what is wrong with corporate governance in this country in the sense that, in the culture of a lot of organisations and despite their super profits, their contribution to society is minimal. Where does this contribution go, all the super profits? To senior executives. Boards of directors are making enormous amounts of money quite disproportionate to ordinary South Australians.

The other thing that has been interesting to note throughout the debate is that, without fail, members of the Liberal Party opposite have all said, 'We want fewer taxes,' but at the same time they have all said, 'We want this spent on this as well.' When you add up 'this bit as well', it is hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars more, if not billions of dollars more. I am not sure where they are going to get the money to pay for those projects. What are they going to cut out? Are they going to cut out schools? Are they going to close schools? Are they going to cut funding to hospitals? What will they save on in order to spend on all the other things they want to do, because they say that they are not going to increase taxes? It is interesting that the whole debate has been quite inconsistent.

There are some examples of taxes that work in my electorate. I would like the Liberal Party to say whether they will cancel these projects, but they will not do this because this is taxation moneys at work. For example, are they going to cancel the electrification of the Gawler railway line? Are they going to cancel the new communication tower at Wasleys in my community? Are they going to cancel the new school in Munno Para? Are they going to cancel the Gawler East Link Road? These are all things that we are using taxes to spend on. If you are going to reduce taxes, you need to either cut expenditure or not do the things you want to do.

Another issue they raised includes the lack of consultation about the big bank tax. I am reminded of Globe Link—the Liberal Party's response to all the state's transport issues. Industry associations criticised it for their lack of consultation, saying that it would not work. On a more positive note, I would like to talk about a couple of projects that are funded by the state government, which are supporting small business and will make businesses more profitable.

One of the projects that I have been involved in personally is a co-worker project as part of the northern economic growth projects. It involves the Stretton Centre, in partnership with Business SA and the City of Playford. We have a building inspector, a plumber, an energy efficiency consultant, a make-up artist and a native food business.

The one thing they have in common is that they are all small businesses. The other thing they have in common is that they have all been successful in obtaining what they call a co-worker place at the Stretton Centre. What are co-worker spaces? Basically, they are spaces at a business enterprise centre where small businesses can lease a small space and get mentoring support, business advice and networks, etc.

The purpose of these co-worker spaces is to support small businesses in their early days so that they become successful and grow. They are funded by taxation. As a result of this business project, these small businesses include Johnson Plumbing and Gas, Red Centre Enterprises, Quality Building Inspections, Down to Earth Sustainable Solutions and Sapherra's Beauty. These are businesses in my electorate that will grow to employ additional people.

The other project I have been involved in, which was announced recently—again, our taxes at work—is a grant of $100,000 from the state government to the Barossa Collaboration. The collaboration involves The Barossa Council, the Light Regional Council, Barossa Food, Tourism Barossa, the Barossa Grape and Wine Association and the RDA. This project is designed to support and grow small artisan businesses in the Barossa. There is a whole range of projects that have been undertaken.

The project will be chaired by Jan Angas and will explore ways of unshackling small businesses from the various regulations, licensing requirements, etc., to enable these businesses to flourish and to enable value-adding opportunities in these small businesses. These small businesses will be supported through taxation. Again, this is taxation at work to support small business, to grow small business and to grow new jobs. The assertion that taxation cannot work for or help to grow jobs is just a nonsense. It is certainly true that you need to spend your tax dollars wisely and it is certainly true that you need to spend them in a way that actually promotes jobs.

For example, with the Barossa Collaboration, the moneys will be spent to review planning and licensing regulations applicable to artisan food production; further develop the Barossa Trust Mark to protect the integrity of the Barossa brand to help with exports; develop a Barossa prospectus to attract investment in small and start-up food ventures and creative arts ventures; assess and further develop the forthcoming Be Consumed event in Melbourne, where the Barossa will be on expo; and investigate the establishment of a project of culinary excellence to build not only on the Barossa's wine experience but also on the Barossa's food experience.

There is a whole range of examples where our taxes can be used to promote and support businesses and new work. With those comments, I end the debate.

Motion carried.

Estimates Committees

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (21:32): I move:

That the proposed expenditures for the departments and services contained in the Appropriation Bill be referred to Estimates Committees A and B for examination and report by Wednesday 2 August, in accordance with the following timetables:

APPROPRIATION BILL 2017

TIMETABLE FOR ESTIMATES COMMITTEES

ESTIMATES COMMITTEE A

WEDNESDAY 26 JULY AT 9.00 AM

Premier

Treasurer

Minister for Finance

Minister for State Development

Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy

Legislative Council

House of Assembly

Joint Parliamentary Services

Administered Items for Joint Parliamentary Services

State Governor's Establishment

Auditor-General's Department

Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Administered Items for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Department of State Development (part)

Administered Items for the Department of State Development (part)

Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

THURSDAY 27 JULY AT 9.00 AM

Minister for Transport and Infrastructure

Minister for Housing and Urban Development

Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

FRIDAY 28 JULY AT 9.00 AM

Minister for Education and Childhood Development

Minister for Higher Education and Skills

Department of Education and Child Development

Administered Items for the Department of Education and Child Development

Department for Child Protection

Department of State Development (part)

Administered Items for the Department of State Development (part)

MONDAY 31 JULY AT 9.00 AM

Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries

Minister for Forests

Minister for Tourism

Minister for Recreation and Sport

Minister for Racing

Department of Primary Industries and Regions (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Primary Industries and Regions (part)

South Australian Tourism Commission

Minister for Tourism

Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

TUESDAY 1 AUGUST AT 9.00 AM

Minister for Health

Minister for Health Industries

Minister for Arts

Minister for Investment and Trade

Minister for Small Business

Minister for Defence Industries

Minister for Veteran's Affairs

Department for Health and Ageing (part)

Department of State Development (part)

Administered Items for the Department of State Development (part)

Defence SA

Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

ESTIMATES COMMITTEE B

WEDNESDAY 26 JULY AT 9.00 AM

Attorney-General

Minister for Justice Reform

Minister for Planning

Minister for the City of Adelaide

Minister for Public Sector

Minister for Industrial Relations

Minister for Consumer and Business Services

Courts Administration Authority

Attorney-General's Department (part)

Administered Items for the Attorney-General's Department (part)

Electoral Commission SA

Administered Items for the Electoral Commission SA

Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Administered Items for the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (part)

Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Independent Gambling Authority

THURSDAY 27 JULY AT 9.00 AM

Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion

Minister for Social Housing

Minister for the Status of Women

Minister for Ageing

Minister for Youth

Minister for Multicultural Affairs

Minister for Volunteers

Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (part)

Department for Health and Ageing (part)

FRIDAY 28 JULY AT 9.00 AM

Minister for Police

Minister for Correctional Services

Minister for Emergency Services

Minister for Road Safety

Minister for Disabilities

Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse

South Australia Police

Administered Items for South Australia Police

Department for Correctional Services

Administered Items for the Department of Treasury and Finance (part)

Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion (part)

Department for Health and Ageing (part)

South Australian Mental Health Commission

MONDAY 31 JULY AT 9.00 AM

Minister for Employment

Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation

Minister for Automotive Transformation

Minister for Science and Information Economy

Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation

Department of State Development (part)

Administered Items for the Department of State Development (part)

TUESDAY 1 AUGUST AT 9.00 AM

Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation

Minister for Water and the River Murray

Minister for Climate Change

Minister for Regional Development

Minister for Local Government

Department for Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Administered Items for the Department for Environment, Water and Natural Resources

Department of Primary Industries and Regions

Administered Items for the Department of Primary Industries and Regions

Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Administered Items for the Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (part)

Local Government Grants Commission.

Motion carried.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (21:32): I move:

That Estimates Committee A be appointed, consisting of Ms Bedford, Ms Cook, Mr Hughes, Hon. S.W. Key, Mr Knoll, Mr Marshall and Mr Speirs.

Motion carried.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (21:32): I move:

That Estimates Committee B be appointed, consisting of Mr Odenwalder, Ms Chapman, Mr Gee, Mr Griffiths, Hon. A. Piccolo, Ms Wortley and Mr Tarzia.

Motion carried.

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