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Goyder Highway

The Hon. G.G. BROCK (Frome) (14:52): My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Can the minister please advise when the people from the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure will visit the Goyder Highway section of road between Crystal Brook and Gulnare and inspect this road with me, as requested by myself on 31 July 2018? With your leave, Mr Speaker, and that of the house, can I please explain further?

Leave granted.

The Hon. G.G. BROCK: I responded to the minister's request to my correspondence on 10 April last year, which was received from the minister on 25 July, where the minister stated that the election commitment from this government to reinstate the eight regional roads previously reduced to 100 km/h was going through a systematic review of country roads. I responded that I disagreed with the department's analysis of this road, and their reasons, and asked for an on-site inspection of that road with the department.

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:53): Well, I wasn't part of the cabinet that reduced those eight speed limits—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —but we are the ones who are going to put them back.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: We are the ones who are going to put them back. We are getting much closer day by day to finalising that report and being able to make that known about how it is that we are going to put these speed limits back up to 110 km/h, and we are committed to getting it done.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: All in good time. But can I say that, in terms of inspecting the road—

The Hon. T.J. Whetstone interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Minister for Primary Industries, please!

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Lee, and the member for Kaurna!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —the department—

The SPEAKER: Sorry, crossfire!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —inspects regional roads under our care and control on a fortnightly basis. We keep an active and physical watch on all of our roads, every single fortnight, to make sure that we are assessing the condition, especially where we see spot issues which can be fixed very quickly and which helps to stop further and quicker deterioration later on.

This Liberal government has a commitment to regional roads that is unmatched by those opposite and those previous. We have put on the table projects in regional South Australia that those opposite could only have dreamed of: the Joy Baluch Bridge, $200 million to fix a longstanding problem in the member for Stuart's electorate; the duplication in the bypass at Port Wakefield, which I know is something that the people of Port Wakefield had been desperately asking for for a long time—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —and the Penola bypass, which those opposite, those grinches opposite, wouldn't accept federal government money for, is finally being delivered. I hear cries of 'get on and do it quicker'. Well, can I tell you that getting it done by a government that has put the money on the table is infinitely quicker than those who refuse to do anything. I think that maybe a little bit of self-reflection is in order from time to time. We are committed to getting this done, and I think that, over the course of this year—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —regional South Australians, who have been desperately waiting for a change of government for 16 years, will see the whites of our eyes and the money that we are willing to invest in regional roads over and above that which has already been invested. As the member for Frome will see, we are committed to making sure that regional roads, especially in the Mid North, are looked after. We will be able to demonstrate to regional South Australians that a change of government is good to keep people alive on our regional roads.

The SPEAKER: The member for West Torrens is warned for interjecting.

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