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North-South Corridor

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:26): I have a supplementary question. Can the minister assure this house that he will honour his commitment to deliver the completion of the north-south corridor by 2023?

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:26): This is fantastic. He is asking us to commit to something that needed to happen two or three budgets ago.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER Order!

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: Now, the federal government, in 2013—

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —the then prime minister of Australia—a job that I don't hold and will never hold and will never seek to hold—Tony Abbott, the prime minister in 2013, said that he would deliver the north-south corridor in 2023. Given that a lot of these larger stages—

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —do take three or four years to build, then we would have had to start that work sometime before March 2017.

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: In fact, maybe we could have started this work two, three or four years ago.

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: It reminds me a little bit like this—

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —it is like you've got an office building—

Mr Koutsantonis interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for West Torrens is on two warnings.

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —that is being constructed and you are working to a tough time line, so you have a day shift and you have a night shift.

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: Day shift knocks off at 5 o'clock and the night shift comes in and day shift says, 'Look, guys'—

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The SPEAKER: Members on my left will cease interjecting or they will be sent out.

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —'we didn't feel like doing our work today, so we did nothing, so can you guys just get on and can you do twice as much work because we were too busy having smoko to actually get anything done. So, please, we couldn't get it done, but I tell you what, if you guys haven't got it done by tomorrow morning you are in big trouble.'—patently ridiculous!

We will work to clean up the mess. I am having to do it at the moment on bollards at Adelaide Oval. We are having to do it on the city tram extension project. Now we are having to do it on the north-south corridor, and South Australians will realise that over time, one by one, we will fix up the mess, but it does not take seven weeks to clean up 16 years of mess.

I am sorry, I do apologise to the people of South Australia. It is going to take a little bit longer, but it's good because we have a four-year electoral cycle in South Australia and, by the end of this four-year term, South Australians will be able to compare and contrast, 'Have these people done what they said they were going to do'—

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —'versus the other guys who said a whole heap of stuff and never did anything?' And the answer will be yes. We will work diligently with the federal government in a cooperative manner, because I believe that last year the, 'Let's pick a fight with everybody to make ourselves look tough'—small man syndrome—'let's puff out our chest and pick a fight with anybody because, you know, we need to throw our weight around', delivered zero!

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The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: A constructive working relationship delivered $1.8 billion at a 100 per cent success rate. I think that is a pretty good success rate. Those opposite don't like a bit of good news—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —but South Australians will appreciate that the federal government is committed to putting money on the table. The state government will deliver these projects and South Australia will be all the better for it.

The SPEAKER: Before I call the member for Flinders, I call the member for Mawson to order and warn him a first time. The member for Morialta is warned. The member for Unley is called to order. I warn for the second and final time the members for West Torrens and the leader. Member for Flinders.

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