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Lot Fourteen

Dr HARVEY (Newland) (14:32): My question is to the Premier. Can the Premier update the house on how the government is delivering Lot Fourteen?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:33): I thank the member for Newland for his question.

Mr Brown interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Playford is warned for a second and final time.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: It is great to have the member for Newland in this parliament. He is a highly learned gentleman, a former postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Adelaide, and we should be grateful that he has come into this parliament. He gives us another element to the different range of skills that different people bring to this house.

We are very fortunate in South Australia. We have some great traditional sectors here in our state: agriculture, mining, construction, retail, manufacturing, tourism and international students. But, while having those fantastic industries as the bedrock of our economy here in South Australia, we also need to have one eye looking to the future industries in South Australia. Whilst those opposite wanted to put 1,300 apartments on the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site, we have decided that there is a higher use for that site—

Mr Brown interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Playford is on two warnings.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —right in the centre of the city, seven hectares available for us to develop into what I consider to be the most exciting innovation precinct anywhere in the country. We are very pleased with the way that it is moving at the moment. We were very pleased earlier in the week that Squad announced—

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for West Torrens is warned for a second and final time.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —that they will be moving onto Lot Fourteen into the defence landing pad. Squad is the fastest growing French cyber company. It's a company that we originally met when the Leader of the Opposition and I travelled to Euronaval in Paris last year, where we launched the defence landing pad. They are not the first company to go through the defence landing pad, but they are the latest company to arrive at this landing pad. They believe that they will have 40 people employed here in South Australia within the next three years.

Cyber is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world, and we want a part of that action in this state. We have good resources in this area already. We have announced recently that we as a government will be putting $8.9 million onto Lot Fourteen to establish the Australian cyber collaboration centre, and this will really be looking at developing all these opportunities to create thousands of new jobs in this exciting sector.

Part of our push into this area is the signature that we put onto the MOU with the state of Maryland in the US. Maryland is a state that really credits its entire economic turnaround to the cyber sector, creating tens of thousands of jobs in that state in recent years. Similar opportunities are available to us in this state, and we want to work with the French, through companies like Squad and our relationship with Brittany, which is the cyber capital of France, as well as the opportunities in Maryland, as well as other countries—Five Eyes countries in particular.

Lot Fourteen is really developing. Next month, we will have MIT moving onto Lot Fourteen, the number one ranked university in the world. In December, we will have the Australian Space Agency taking up their position on Lot Fourteen, the SmartSat CRC and, of course, the University of Adelaide's Australian Institute of Machine Learning, which has very significant support from Lockheed Martin.

There are lots of things happening—and so there should be. We want to give every single person in this state an opportunity for a fulfilling, long-term, sustainable career in these future industries right here in South Australia because for too long people who were getting good quality qualifications from school and university were moving interstate to find jobs in these new areas. Now those jobs will be available right here in Adelaide.

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