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Infrastructure South Australia

Mr KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (15:11): My question is to the Premier. Given the Premier has been personally monitoring the implementation of his 100-day plan, can the Premier explain why he has failed to determine the membership of Infrastructure South Australia, as he promised to do within the first 30 days of his government?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (15:11): I know that the member for West Torrens was probably dozing off and not as excited about question time as he perhaps was in a previous era and a previous incarnation when he liked to stand up and talk and talk and talk. Sometimes he even made sense, but not very often. I have already given a ministerial statement on that. It was right at the very beginning, which is when you give ministerial statements, and what we—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —announced in that ministerial statement is that we have been making extraordinary progress—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: Let me tell you, sir, a lot of people are very interested because they know that finally—finally—in South Australia we have a reformist government that is going to get on and do the work that other jurisdictions, Labor and Liberal, around the country have been working on. Plenty of people have put up their hands. We are going to make sure—

Mr Koutsantonis: Who?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: I'm not going to pre-announce it just because you have asked the question.

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: You ask the questions and we give the answers—that's the way this works. The reality is—

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, leader!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —that these reforms are long overdue—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The cabinet will sign off on the final legislation for Infrastructure SA and the productivity commission. It will be brought to this parliament and, on the passage of that legislation, we will be announcing excellent people who will be heading up these important roles in South Australia.

I make the point that these reforms are even being adopted by the Labor government in Western Australia which has said that they are going to have an infrastructure body—a body to develop a long-range productive infrastructure plan for their state—unlike those opposite who, whilst in government for 16 long and laborious years, said, 'We don't need to have an infrastructure planning body.' Then we have the temerity of the shadow minister's officer asking questions regarding plans for projects in South Australia and asking us about what percentage we got. I would like to ask those opposite: what percentage did you get for the O-Bahn extension? I know what percentage it was: zero. You got zero for the state—absolutely zero.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: There wasn't a plan that you had even done a comprehensive analysis on.

Mr KOUTSANTONIS: Point of order: debate, sir. The question was about the membership of Infrastructure South Australia—

The SPEAKER: I think the Premier is wrapping it up. I think the Premier was wrapping up. Is the Premier finished?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: The names will be coming back after the legislation passes.

The SPEAKER: Thank you, Premier. The member for Waite.

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