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Royal Adelaide Hospital Site Redevelopment

Mrs POWER (Elder) (14:16): My question is to the Minister for Industry and Skills. Can the minister please update the house—

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis interjecting:

Mrs POWER: —on the state government's initiatives to make South Australia the start-up capital of Australia?

The SPEAKER: Before the minister speaks, the member for West Torrens is warned for a second and final time. Minister.

The Hon. D.G. PISONI (Unley—Minister for Industry and Skills) (14:17): Thank you, sir. I thank the member for Elder for her interest in innovation and South Australia's future. The Marshall Liberal government is building Australia's largest innovation incubator and start-up hub in the heritage buildings at Lot Fourteen, which is the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site.

This includes the University of Adelaide's Australian Institute of Machine Learning—the country's first institute of its kind—which will open its doors at Lot Fourteen later this year. We anticipate that around 2,000 people will be working in business at the hub by about this time next year. The centrepiece of the hub—the Chief Entrepreneur and the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board—will drive the state's entrepreneurship strategy.

Recently, former fighter jet pilot, Harvard graduate and defence company Nova Group chief executive, Jim Whalley, was appointed as South Australia's first Chief Entrepreneur. Mr Whalley is an outstanding businessperson with the right skills to help raise the profile of South Australia as the best state in the nation to start and grow successful businesses. He is passionate about helping shape a supportive and encouraging environment for entrepreneurs to flourish here in South Australia. It is an exciting time to be in South Australia. There is renewed optimism across the community and business sectors, particularly as we roll out our reforms around job creation, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Some of the key reforms include investing more than $200 million over the next four years; increasing the number of apprentices and trainees by more than 20,000; introducing entrepreneurial education, including the establishment of four entrepreneurial high schools; designing and rolling out new flexible apprenticeship pathways, allowing young people to start their careers and gain their high school certificate while being paid a salary; and establishing a new technical college in the north-western suburbs of Adelaide, which will have a focus on preparing our workforce for the defence industry challenges ahead.

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