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Adelaide Railway Station Information Centre

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:34): Supplementary question to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport: when the Keolis Downer contract is in effect next year, who will operate the Adelaide information centre located in Adelaide Railway Station—the state government or Keolis Downer—under your contract?

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (14:34): Again, to be clear, the operation will happen through Keolis Downer. The operation of our train network will happen through Keolis Downer.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Which element of the information centre are you talking about? What we have here is this situation; it's a bit like if you had a house—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The minister will resume his seat.

Mr Malinauskas: If you don't know, just say you don't know.

The SPEAKER: Order! The leader will cease interjecting.

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: How's your mumble joke going now?

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

Ms Stinson: Sorry, we can't hear; you're mumbling.

The SPEAKER: The member for Badcoe is on two warnings. The minister has the call.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Thank you very much, sir. I would just like to make a point of clarification to the member for West Torrens, who made some snide comment about a mumble joke. It wasn't a mumble joke; I genuinely couldn't hear what you said.

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: I don't believe you.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Yes, well, I don't believe you a lot of the time either.

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: And I apologise—

The SPEAKER: Order! The minister will not respond to interjections. The minister has the call.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: It's not the interjection that I am responding to, it's the assertion that the member for West Torrens was making. I genuinely couldn't hear him and I asked him to repeat the question. I would just like that on the record. Again, with this contract, this is a bit like if you own a house and you get someone in to maybe mow your lawns. You actually subcontract them in, and they come in and that's the job that they do. Like that, with these train operations, what will happen—so things like the PSAs, they will be run—

Dr Close interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, the deputy leader!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —by Keolis Downer. Those operations—

Ms Hildyard: Is the train going to go on the grass now?

The SPEAKER: Member for Reynell!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —will be done by Keolis Downer. So any of those roles, any of those operational roles will be done by Keolis Downer. That's how it works. It's being outsourced. The operations will be done by Keolis Downer.

Ms Hildyard: It's going to be like a Jim's Mowing—out on the lawns.

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Reynell is warned.

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