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Lot Fourteen

Mr PATTERSON (Morphett) (11:16): I move:

That this house—

(a) recognises that during its four-year term the Marshall Liberal government completely transformed the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site into a hub of technology, innovation and culture;

(b) recognises that Lot Fourteen is creating thousands of jobs and showcasing South Australia to the world;

(c) recognises that Lot Fourteen is host to Australia’s national Space Agency, cementing South Australia as the national centre of Australia’s space industry;

(d) recognises that Lot Fourteen will showcase our rich and diverse Aboriginal culture to the world and attract more visitors to South Australia with establishment of the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre; and

(e) acknowledges the Marshall Liberal government for establishing a vibrant, world-class innovation, startup growth precinct at Lot Fourteen.

I take this opportunity to speak in parliament today about Lot Fourteen, which in such a short period of time has been transformed into an entrepreneurial technology and innovation hub that really is, and will be into the future, an engine room of growth for the South Australian economy in the high-tech sectors, in the space sectors and also, equally, in the defence sectors.

The changes that have occurred in the last four years have been rapid, and I got to experience the transformation of Lot Fourteen throughout that time, and most especially in my previous role as the Minister for Trade and Investment, collaborating and working with so many businesses that are setting up there, that are interested in setting up there as well, with the opportunities.

Lot Fourteen will be able to establish an ecosystem there, and it is all about the synergies and even just interactions with companies, interacting and being able to problem-solve together. It is that sort of collaboration that then fuels further growth as well. Certainly, it is worth noting that in my new role as shadow minister for defence and space industries Lot Fourteen is still really important to those two areas, so my interest in Lot Fourteen certainly remains very much to the fore.

In terms of Lot Fourteen, it is on the site of the former Royal Adelaide Hospital. It is a seven-hectare site, really strategically located within the city. It is close to the CBD, along North Terrace. It is located right near the university precinct and fronted by a number of existing heritage buildings, and it really has a lot of opportunities. Those opposite were not so sure what to do with it. They had a number of attempts at thinking what to do with the former Royal Adelaide Hospital, and in the end they decided to go down the housing development path, looking to establish about 1,300 houses on that site.

On this side of the house, the former Marshall government saw there was so much more opportunity that could be created on that strategic parcel of land, a seven-hectare parcel of land. We wanted to turn it into a really major economic engine room for the city and for the state of South Australia as well. How are you going to do that? Really, it is about looking at what are the growth industries so that South Australia can compete on equal terms with what is becoming more and more a global economy.

Certainly we saw that opportunity was to create in Lot Fourteen a hub of technology, a hub of innovation, while recognising that it could also be a centrepiece for culture. We see that along North Terrace we have the Museum there as well, so we continue in that vein. Importantly, we are looking to create this innovation centre so that it can not only be a jobs factory for people but also showcase South Australia. More and more it becomes necessary that we give people a reason to actually see South Australia for what it is—that is, it punches above its weight on so many occasions. I think it is better for the world to know that as well.

As I mentioned, one of those key industries that we are looking at for future growth in a global economy is the space sector itself. Currently, the space sector in Australia is worth about $5.6 billion, but that is projected to grow to around $12 billion by 2030 and, importantly, create about 20,000 jobs. There you can see the synergy between growing the economy and also growing jobs.

I was really excited to be present at the site of Lot Fourteen nearly four years ago on 12 December, when the former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, alongside the member for Dunstan and former Premier, announced that Lot Fourteen was going to be the location of the national headquarters for the Australian Space Agency and that it was going to be based in Lot Fourteen. That really was an exciting announcement for South Australia.

At the time, Australia was one of the very few OECD countries in the world that did not have a space agency, so as a country we were not engaged in the opportunities for what space is going to become. To be able to secure the Space Agency here at Lot Fourteen in South Australia really was a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the state and again brings us to the fore as well. At the time, there was a lot of push to put the Space Agency in Canberra. The problem with that was that it would invariably become quite bureaucratic in nature.

What is driving the space industry at the moment is the fact that it is being commercialised. No longer is it the domain of governments having to put in big amounts of money. What you find is really forward-looking, innovative companies that want to invest in space because they can see the opportunities there. The opportunities are not actually in space; it is more how they can make our life here on Earth so much easier.

There are massive opportunities around the Internet of Things. More and more, technology is miniaturising, and a great example is the amount of computational power we have in our iPhones today. It dwarfs the amount of computational power of decades ago, when space was first being formed. That is what is driving it and, because it can be miniaturised, it allows commercial operators to get into space. As to the cost of putting something into space, the laws of physics mean that you have to have a certain amount of thrust, and so the lighter things are the easier and the cheaper it is to put them into space, so more and more commercial operators are able to move into this area.

In South Australia, we have some great companies that are really pushing forward into this space because they recognise the opportunities. Companies such as Nova Systems, Inovor Technologies, Silentium Defence, Fleet, Myriota and Southern Launch are really at the forefront of this. One of the big reasons why we were able to convince the national Space Agency to be headquartered here in Lot Fourteen in South Australia was that ecosystem that was already thriving and that we were looking to further grow. That shone a light on what is going on here in South Australia in terms of why the Space Agency should be here and has also created a lot of attention.

It is worth talking about what the Space Agency is all about. It is based upon a lot of science, technology, engineering and maths skills. It is trying to push into solutions in terms of space operations, space science, along with Earth tracking, positioning and observation. It was not just the Space Agency landing in Lot Fourteen that helped us to support the space industry but it was also Mission Control being set up. The $6 million Mission Control Centre was also to be located in Lot Fourteen. The reason for having Mission Control is to allow the small space missions, the small space sector, to be controlled right here in South Australia and not to have to rely on other countries. That is going to help them further grow their business.

As I said, Mission Control was run by Saber Astronautics. It is a great facility and it allows not only small satellite missions to be controlled but also real-time control and testings. Even before the launch, it allows satellites to be tested to make sure they are going to be compliant once they are in space. That also helps to accelerate Australian satellite technology, which is really important. Having it here in South Australia means that satellite technology is able to be developed closer to home, which, of course, is in South Australia.

Alongside Mission Control in Lot Fourteen in the same building is the Space Discovery Centre, a fantastic tool to help engage our youth wanting to get involved in space. Space does inspire a lot of students, especially in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths. This gives a tactile way for students to come and learn about space and how it relates to Earth. They will have gained from movies what their view of space is, which involves things in far away galaxies, but as I said before, the real advantage of having a space sector here in South Australia is that it has on-the-ground applications in agriculture, in mining, in water tracking, and in bushfire management and recovery as well. That $6 million Discovery Centre is helping to grow our space sector.

Another fantastic result was that in 2019 we had the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre also looking to set up here in South Australia at Lot Fourteen. That was really pushed by the University of South Australia's Professor Andy Koronios, among others. That brings to South Australia a big research powerhouse working with around 85 international and national partners looking to invest over $190 million, with a further $55 million from the then federal government.

That is a total of $245 million in research based here over the next seven years looking to focus on three key areas: advanced communications; Internet of Things connectivity; and also Advanced Satellite Systems, Sensors and Intelligence and Next Generation Earth Observation Data Services. This is a real example of building out the space sector and having real-world application here and the jobs that flow from that.

Another significant institution set up at Lot Fourteen is the Australian Institute for Machine Learning. It is one of the top three institutes in the world for artificial intelligence in the vision field and also machine learning, so it is doing some great things in terms of big data and being able to analyse that. Closely aligned with that is the MIT Living Lab. MIT is one of the other big research institutions with a very high rank (I think it is No. 2) in terms of machine learning, and to have that based here in South Australia is fantastic. To have it based in Lot Fourteen is phenomenal as well. Other places in the world with MIT Living Labs are Beijing, New York and Istanbul, so South Australia is in really good company there.

Of course all this data analytics is very important, but more and more we have seen the need to have safe and secure data. That comes in the area of cyber, and also on Lot Fourteen is the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre. This is vitally important to get our small businesses up to speed with cyber. Out of that, they will be able to look to grow into defence contracts, and also make sure they are resilient, because there are certainly massive threats in the world.

These key pillars in Lot Fourteen are thriving, but what they are also doing is attracting global companies to South Australia. We had Accenture come here, which has 500,000 staff globally. It has set up here in South Australia, and AWS, Amazon Web Services (I think the No. 2 biggest company in the world), set up a presence in Lot Fourteen based on what was going on. There were no incentives for AWS to come here, and what that does is give great service for other small businesses to be there.

Other big companies, such as Google, have set up there. Microsoft have set up their Azure Space, and Nokia have come here. There are massive opportunities in the area of 5G, and that is set to grow to about $8 trillion globally by 2030. Having these massive companies here allows for fantastic job opportunities. South Australians no longer have to go overseas or interstate to get those opportunities; they can be here in South Australia. It is going to play a big role going forward, in terms of setting up globally significant careers based here in South Australia.

It is very worthy that we acknowledge the efforts of the Marshall government in attracting Lot Fourteen as such a transformational legacy that will help generations to come.

Mrs PEARCE (King) (11:32): I move the following amendments to the motion:

Delete (a) and insert new (a):

recognises that during its four-year term, the Marshall Liberal government enacted the former Labor government's plan to transform the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site into a hub of technology, innovation and culture;

Delete (e) and insert new (e):

acknowledges that Lot Fourteen is a vibrant world-class innovation and startup growth precinct.

In 2018, the Weatherill Labor government committed to spending $350 million over nine years, if re-elected, to redevelop the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site into a technology hub. At that time, former Premier Jay Weatherill stated:

The old Royal Adelaide Hospital site presents us with an enormous opportunity to bring together educational institutions, government and the private sector to work together

This included converting a portion of the site into a space for high-tech startup companies. Adelaide University was intended to be the first tenant, with an artificial intelligence institute. Lot Fourteen now hosts the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), which conducts globally competitive research and development in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and deep learning.

We acknowledge and credit the work done by the Marshall Liberal government, in particular by the former Premier, to create an innovation district at Lot Fourteen. Lot Fourteen is now a flourishing innovation district that is attracting national and international attention. Recent announcements include:

the opening of BOM's Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre, which will deliver 24/7 space weather forecasting and warning services to support Australia's space industry;

Airbus Defence and Space announced that it will open its first Australian office at the Defence and Space Landing Pad; and

The Circle—First Nations Entrepreneur Hub, located at Lot Fourteen, presented the First Nations Business Showcase at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, with almost 100 First Nations businesses in attendance. This is the largest event of its kind in South Australia today.

Personally, I have been to Lot Fourteen quite a few times, and every time I am absolutely blown away. I was there earlier this year to launch Deloittes Digital Pulse report, which was extremely honest and open about the need to address diversity within the sector, focusing on where the issues are currently stemming from.

I recently had the pleasure of being a guest speaker at the EY space leadership breakfast, focusing on ESG (environment, social, governance) and its relationship to international space agencies. I must say that the panel, and the leaps and bounds that we are making in this space, is absolutely out of this world—pun intended.

I am pleased to share that the Malinauskas Labor government will continue to support Lot Fourteen and ensure its success. This is why the Premier recently announced that we have suspended work on Tarrkarri—Centre for First Nations Cultures, as this is a unique opportunity to promote and celebrate First Nations culture. The Premier has appointed a panel comprising former Indigenous Australian Minister Ken Wyatt, former New South Wales Premier Bob Carr and former investment banker Carolyn Hewson, to urgently review the $200 million project, with their findings due to be handed down early next year, which I am very much looking forward to seeing.

I am proud that we are encouraging innovative minds in our state, and Lot Fourteen is the absolute place to be for that. I cannot wait to see what is achieved next there.

The Hon. D.G. PISONI (Unley) (11:35): I am just recovering from the claims made by the member for King. I clearly remember the Weatherill government's competition for what they were going to put on that site; they had no idea what they were going to put on that site. I remember that one of the ideas put forward was a large mound of dirt with grass on it. That was one of the ideas, and then it moved on a bit further and it was going to be a housing development—very original. What an original idea for that site.

It was quite extraordinary—again, handing over Parklands to private ownership through a housing development. That was six months before the election and it all fell apart and did not happen. Then there was a change of government and there was a Premier who had a vision for that site, and within days work started on turning that site into a significant innovation centre for South Australia.

There is no doubt that we have shaken off our reputation as the city of churches. Remember, that was based upon St Peter's Cathedral at the top of the hill and all the parishes we see in the suburbs. That has all been replaced now and we have Lot Fourteen, the innovation centre and all the centres of innovation we have throughout the suburbs and regional South Australia.

The Hon. S.S. Marshall: We've still got the churches.

The Hon. D.G. PISONI: We still have the churches, but not many people attend them these days. I think we have more people working at Lot Fourteen than attending church on a regular basis in South Australia. This is a success story, and I congratulate then Premier Steven Marshall on driving this project.

When I first spoke on their first visit to those who were interested in running the Startup Hub on behalf of the government at Lot Fourteen, the work was so advanced. That was less than 12 months after the change of government, and they actually thought that we had taken over a project from the previous government because the work was so advanced. Of course, there was no work by the previous government. There was a competition, an announcement of a building site—

The Hon. L.W.K. Bignell interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Mawson!

The Hon. D.G. PISONI: We hear interjections from the member for Mawson, who I think on his site—

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Unley will not respond to interjections.

The Hon. D.G. PISONI: I think he put on his Facebook site, 'Lot Fourteen I call bullshit.' Is that on your Facebook site?

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. D.G. PISONI: I think it is, or it was at some stage.

The SPEAKER: Member for Unley!

The Hon. D.G. PISONI: I think it was at some stage.

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley knows the standing orders.

The Hon. D.G. PISONI: It took Premier Malinauskas a week to debate before the election before he supported Lot Fourteen. It took him a week before the election before he congratulated Steven Marshall on Lot Fourteen. He did not congratulate Jay Weatherill: he congratulated Steven Marshall on Lot Fourteen.

This amendment put forward by the member for King is insulting to the intelligence of everybody who works in that sector and everybody who has a connection with Lot Fourteen. They know who drove the innovation agenda in South Australia, and it was not Jay Weatherill. It was Steven Marshall who drove that agenda and the rapid change we saw in Lot Fourteen.

People from around the world came to South Australia to set up their businesses in South Australia. Not only that, small businesses and startups had a home base and they had an introduction and a connection to those who wanted to invest. Getting investment funding into startups in South Australia is a difficult task that has been made easier because of the work done by Premier Marshall in conjunction with the work being conducted at Lot Fourteen.

South Australia is on the map when it comes to innovation. I was so disappointed to hear the Deputy Premier, who is the minister responsible for innovation, tell the estimates committee that this government is not interested in IP ownership remaining here in South Australia. IP ownership is an export industry, but it has been our downfall for years where we have invented things in South Australia and then sold that invention off instead of developing that product here—having the IP here, having that foreign currency coming in, paying the bills and paying salaries that people spend here in South Australia.

There is no plan from this government to actually get behind startups in South Australia. Inventors and scientists are producing services and products that are in demand around the world, yet the government has no desire for that to remain here in South Australia. I was shocked when I heard that was the policy of the new government. That is not where we need to be. We do not want to be in the situation where we are relying on others to move to South Australia. Yes, it is always great to have someone moving to South Australia and expanding their business into South Australia, but it is even better when South Australians are expanding their businesses from South Australia. South Australia is their home.

We saw a major shift happening in South Australia over about a 40-year period with the closure of head offices here. What did that mean? Whenever it was time for those head offices, which had moved to the Eastern States or transferred their South Australian office to the Eastern States, to rationalise their businesses, guess what? South Australia was the victim of that rationalisation—whether it was banks, pastoral companies or manufacturing companies. South Australia was the victim because we did not have those head offices in South Australia.

That is the vision at Lot Fourteen, that South Australia is the base. South Australia is the place where people go who are innovators, who are inventors, who are entrepreneurs. I am very pleased that just as the member for Morphett was speaking we saw a tweet from Lot Fourteen where tenants at Lot Fourteen had just won several awards in the last week across the nation.

DTEX Systems won the cybersecurity category of the national awards run by InnovationAus.com. MyVenue, another South Australian company, which sells purchasing systems to American football and basketball stadiums, won the national emerging exporter of the year award at the Australian export awards by the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade). Professor Andre Luiten from QuantX Labs won the Innovator of the Year Award at the Science Excellence and Innovation Awards run by the Department for Innovation and Skills. That is another showcase of what has been happening in South Australia over the last four years when science and industry come together and people invest in locally developed science and innovation in South Australia.

We did more than just facilitate innovators in South Australia: we actually engaged them to do government work. Our Go2Gov program invited government departments that had problems that needed to be solved to go out to the innovation market and out to the startup market. We invited those people to come up with a solution. It was a process that funded these startups to put their pitch together. We had solutions developed from Corrections through to the Department for Primary Industries and many other departments that were able to go out to the startup sector and produce these solutions and products for the South Australian government.

Rather than the government giving grants and then hoping that something would happen, we were actually in business with these businesses, which could then tell prospective clients from around the world that the South Australian government was one of their clients. It was a very, very successful program that saw the growth of startups and the scale-up of startups here in South Australia. I do not accept the nonsense that is coming from the other side, that this is a Weatherill government initiative. Steven Marshall was responsible for this and the former Liberal government.

Mr TEAGUE (Heysen) (11:45): I will first address my remarks briefly to the amendment that has been moved by the member for King. Ill-advised it really is and inappropriate in the circumstances of the great success of Lot Fourteen for the government to come along here on this motion and to somehow endeavour—as the member for Unley has just expressed—in a completely unnecessary way to reinvent a history that is so well known by the people of South Australia given the experience of the government in the last four years.

What we are talking about in Lot Fourteen is a $2.2 billion innovation precinct. It has been hugely successful, and it has been driven by the initiatives in government of former Premier Marshall, who transformed what was in the lead-up to the 2018 election a story of faltering and failure, including in particular the failure of what had been—and uncontroversially so; it is just a fact—a negotiation of long standing by the Weatherill government with a consortium of Commercial and General and John Holland to develop the precinct for residential purposes.

The government when it announced in September 2017 the collapse of those negotiations, including with reflections on that by then Premier Weatherill and with reflections from the now Treasurer, the member for Lee, about the amount of government investment necessary in order to make that site attractive for that location said, 'Well, we've had to throw our hands in the air and drop that, so we're now going to scratch our heads and go back to the drawing board.'

It is all very well for the member for Mawson to interject and say, 'This is all heroically the Weatherill government's initiative,' and for the now Minister for Planning to say, 'Oh, well, this is all about us,' but it is completely—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Omnipresent, member for Taylor.

Mr TEAGUE: Well, if the member for Mawson wants to take complete responsibility, I reflect on what I heard from the member for Mawson and I acknowledge what has been an indication across the floor.

I say that because here we are in the Parliament of South Australia at a moment when we need to make sure that all shoulders are to the wheel in terms of promoting innovation, promoting the good things that go on in this place and promoting the great success that Lot Fourteen has become, because it is precisely the result of a change of direction that occurred and very much in the lead-up to the 2018 election at which the Marshall Liberal government succeeded and then commenced pursuing the course that we have seen so successfully pursued with the result, as I said at the outset of my remarks, that we celebrate a $2.2 billion world-class innovation district.

So those who are following along might have reference, and in case anybody else might like to pursue the argument of the revision of history in the form that is expressed in the amendment, I refer for members' benefit to the article in InDaily that was published on 19 September 2017. I will take the journalist's summary as a suitable point of reference for these purposes and in this moment, with the amendment having just been announced in recent minutes.

The article by Bension Siebert is under the heading 'Govt kills "penthouses on park lands" as oRAH deal collapses'. It is quite a lengthy article that spells out all the things that occurred in the lead-up to the September collapse of what had been that longstanding proposal by the Weatherill government. What we saw post September 2017 from the then Weatherill government could have been no more than a series of workarounds and attempted fixes to say, 'Alright, well, what do we do?' So much ought to be uncontroversial.

There is the fact that we had got to a point where something else needed to be done and that there was assessment of the rehabilitation of the land that was necessary, a determination of what might be viable and so on. We see cogent reflections on that from, among others, Pat Gerace from the Urban Development Institute, where he said, 'Alright, you are not going to build houses there. You better build them somewhere else.' That is what we heard from Pat. That made sense in the context of that announcement.

We heard reference—and he is quoted in the piece—from the then Master Builders SA chief executive Ian Markos, who was urging at that point: 'Government, get on with the job. Give us work that we can do. We would be interested in doing what we can.' But make no mistake: at that point we had a situation in South Australia where we had an old Royal Adelaide Hospital site that had been the subject of extensive consideration, and it ought not to be a matter of controversy that the plan, such as it was, that the Weatherill Labor government had, actually fell over and that the government was at a loss as to what to do next.

I would say one thing more to underscore the lack of a coherent plan that was available, articulated, planned, negotiated, or anything in that regard. It is importantly the question of a contemporary gallery on that site, which was in the context of the same article, so it is there conveniently for reference and is no doubt not the only one. We heard from the then premier at the time that it was far from a certainty that there would even be an institution of that kind that might get the go-ahead because there was no business case for it at that time.

There are any number of aspects of what has gone on at Lot Fourteen over the last four years, but do not go ahead and attempt to rewrite history in a way that, as the member for Unley has observed, treats the people of South Australia as dummies. They know what has happened over the last four years. It has been a roaring success and we ought to continue without this reinvention or attempted reinvention of history in that regard.

If I have not done it loudly enough already, I take the opportunity to pay tribute to the important leadership in this regard of former Premier Marshall. It is well known that all through the period that ensued post 2018 former Premier Marshall was front and centre in promoting the innovation capacity of Lot Fourteen. The state owes former Premier Marshall a great debt of gratitude for that work over that sustained period and he continues, I am sure, to be a key part of promoting further development on that site.

In the short time that I have available in this debate, I reflect on two participants at Lot Fourteen. One is the First Nations Entrepreneur Hub, The Circle. It is providing business development support and has been doing so successfully for getting on two years, having been officially launched in 2021 and opened by former Premier Marshall at that time. It is a space where startups can collaborate, develop their business ideas, enter new markets and create jobs for South Australians, a typical example of the sorts of activities that are facilitated at that site. I commend the motion in its original form.

Ms PRATT (Frome) (11:55): I certainly very happily and with great alacrity intend to speak to this motion and support and commend the member for Morphett for giving us an important opportunity to laud the creation, the imagining, the existence and delivery of Lot Fourteen to South Australia. It certainly was an initiative of the former Premier, the member for Dunstan. I take great pride in the fact that the Marshall Liberal government recognised the opportunity to create a hub of technology, as we have discussed, of innovation and culture, to create thousands of jobs and to showcase South Australia to the world.

Lot Fourteen, of course, is a $2.2 billion world-class innovation district on North Terrace. While the current government were very busy at the time building the most expensive hospital in the world, which we now call the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, they had made no plans for the old site. In fact, as we have heard, they planned for the site to become a high-rise housing development. Of course, what we did instead was to imagine something much more exciting. Lot Fourteen is one of the most exciting urban renewal projects in Australia. It is the centrepiece of the 10-year Adelaide City Deal, which has attracted global talent in space, defence, high-tech and creative industries.

As we continue to prosecute, former Premier Marshall was the driving force behind the announcement that the Australian Space Agency was to be based in Adelaide at Lot Fourteen. As a former teacher, I know for certain that this has given teachers an impetus and a real-life example of a workforce application to encourage the further take-up of STEM or STEAM subjects (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). I think the inclusion of arts comes into its own at this particular site when we reflect on the inventions and innovations that are forthcoming but that require application, creation and ingenuity.

Lot Fourteen is still leveraging the power of collaboration to drive innovation and the translation and commercialisation of cutting-edge research into global markets, on which my farming communities depend. Lot Fourteen also supports world-class research and development of excellence in, as I mentioned, the space, defence, high-tech and creative industries.

I want to push the significance of Lot Fourteen back into regional South Australia and reference the significance of agtech to our economy. Under the former Liberal government, in 2020, the South Australian AgTech Strategic Plan was developed by the AgTech Advisory Group, and it is clear that there is potential for an additional $2.6 billion to be unlocked by the advancement of agtech take-up.

The primary focus of this plan, the strategic plan, is to accelerate adoption of agtech on farm while also taking the pre and post-farm agricultural value chain into account. The key agtech stakeholders were consulted on the strategic plan, and those stakeholders included primary producers, agtech developers, members of industry and researchers, scientists and government agencies. They did discover that there are some key barriers to the adoption of agtech and, in conjunction with Lot Fourteen, I am confident that they will be overcome.

I think it is important to note that where there are barriers on farm, we will not be able to unlock the potential of the $2.6 billion. It goes without saying that some of those barriers were that the technology was not always fit for purpose or that it was a prohibitive capital cost for farmers to adopt. We certainly appreciate in regional South Australia that poor connectivity will inhibit the use of the software and the apps that have been designed.

Those challenges notwithstanding, the opportunities are endless. We know from comments made recently by Adrian McCabe of Alma and of course the chair of Grain Producers SA that, although weather has delayed harvest, there is still the expectation of a bumper grain harvest this year. The application of software on farm management, the product traceability and improvement of the genetic value of plants and animals just compound from there.

Of course traceability and sustainability also have an essential link to the agtech industry in relation to our state's significant wine industry. Wine exports are impacted by the growing issue of wine fraud. It is estimated that 20 per cent of wines worldwide are fake. One startup at Lot Fourteen is tackling this problem head on—and why wouldn't they?—using the most advanced technology to track and trace produce from grower to consumer. Who does not want that?

Innovation in my own beloved Clare Valley delivered the initiative of screw-tops on wine bottles to the rest of the world. Not stopping there, Jeff Crosset wines has continued to innovate with the introduction of blockchain technology embedded into the screw-top to further enhance traceability and provenance. Consumers and exporters alike can be comforted by the quality of wine they are buying. It is precisely these innovations in primary industries as supported by startup entrepreneurs at Lot Fourteen that we celebrate its existence and the delivery by the former Marshall Liberal government. SA is the better for it.

Mr BATTY (Bragg) (12:02): Thank you to the shadow minister, the member for Morphett, for bringing this motion before the house because it is a very important opportunity for this house to acknowledge something that stands as one of the greatest achievements of the Marshall Liberal government. Lot Fourteen, which I described in my maiden speech as being an innovation precinct that the likes of Sir William and Sir Lawrence Bragg would be proud of, has quickly developed into a hub of technology, innovation and culture.

Despite the attempts by those on the other side of the house to rewrite history, we know that this was not always the plan for the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site. We have heard the member for Heysen quote media reporting from InDaily, and he said there are many more. There are indeed many more, including from the ABC, which quotes then Premier Jay Weatherill in 2016 spruiking plans for a thousand apartments on this site. It quotes the then I think urban development minister, Stephen Mullighan, spruiking the site and about how good it is going to be to have people living on that site. It also quotes the then opposition leader, Steven Marshall, who said: 'That sounds like a missed opportunity to me. That sounds like a missed opportunity for us.'

On coming into government, Steven Marshall, the member for Dunstan, had a better idea, had a better plan, had a bold and transformative vision for this site that has fast become a reality. Already this precinct has developed into the incredible hub of innovation that it is today, with more than 140 businesses on this site employing more than 1,400 people. It is attracting some of the world's best and most innovative organisations, and it is exactly what we needed at this site.

Importantly, this did not happen as an accident. This was not the result of luck, and it certainly was not the result of some sort of vision from Jay Weatherill. Instead, it was the result of the former Liberal government's strong leadership on this issue. State and federal government investment on this site has seen around 20,000 square metres of office space across the heritage buildings on North Terrace and Frome Road repurposed into an innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Importantly and pleasingly, as this was happening the development was underpinned by an ethos of sustainability. It is expected that in excess of 100,000 tonnes of materials will be recycled from that site by the time that works are complete, which is very important indeed.

Also importantly, we can see that the transformation at the site is not just a physical one. Above all, it is and will be an economic transformation. As one of the youngest members in this house, it is incredibly important that we keep young people here in South Australia. To do that, we need to have the jobs of the future right here in South Australia. We need to reverse the brain drain and we need to attract talent and capital from interstate. What we have seen already in just a few short years is South Australians, young South Australians, who might ordinarily have gone interstate or overseas seeing greater opportunities right here in South Australia. The future is brighter right here in South Australia and the jobs of the future are here for them at home.

We see people staying or we see people, like I did, leaving for a period of time and returning because we are at the cutting edge of new innovative fields. I say that Lot Fourteen and the member for Dunstan deserve a lot of the credit for this. What we have seen on this site now is a focus on those jobs of the future: digital technology and innovation, creative industries, international education, tourism, health and medical industries, defence and space. Lot Fourteen is helping South Australia be at the cutting edge of all these innovative fields. It certainly is not the wasted opportunity that 1,000-odd apartments and a hotel building would have been.

What we instead see is Adelaide becoming a centre of excellence for various sectors, and perhaps the best well known is the Australian Space Agency. In December 2018, I was incredibly proud when the then Prime Minister and the then Premier announced that Adelaide would be the home of the Australian Space Agency. This was a once-in-a-generation opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the Liberal government of the time seized that moment, which means we now have not only the national space centre here but a huge ecosystem of private sector interests setting up around its hub of excellence.

We know that the space industry is going to triple in the coming years and that it is going to employ up to 20,000 South Australians by 2030.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Schubert knows better, as does the member for Frome. The member for Wright will cease interjecting. The member for Bragg has the call. Member for Schubert!

Mr BATTY: It is not an apartment building and it is not just a space agency either because we see a number of other centres of excellence setting up on the site. The Australian Institute for Machine Learning, a bold co-venture with the University of Adelaide, has 160 members and together they are responsible for ranking sixth globally for computer vision research and in the top three in Australasia for AI research generally. As the member for Bragg, it was a pleasure for me to recently meet with the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide to discuss the institute and to attend the University of Adelaide's Ingenuity Convention, which showcased some of this research and some of the great work that their researchers and students are doing.

It does not stop there. The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre, or A3C as it commonly known, is also located at Lot Fourteen, and we are going to see cyber become incredibly more important as our modern digital and information economy grows. Again, this also provides those jobs of the future for our IT graduates coming forward. I could go on and on about the science and technology innovations at Lot Fourteen—and I will go on and on because I have not yet even mentioned the collaboration with MIT to develop Living Labs, Accenture's establishment of a hub, or the very recent announcement by Airbus that they are establishing a research facility at Lot Fourteen.

It has already, in a few short years, grown to a centre of excellence in so many different and innovative fields. It has attracted some of the world's largest and best organisations and companies—the likes of Google, the likes of Amazon, the likes of Microsoft and the Commonwealth Bank. This is the sort of innovation that is going to keep young people in this state and keep our economy growing.

I could go on more about science and technology innovation, but I want to briefly talk about how it is also a cultural hub at Lot Fourteen, and that is something I am pleased this motion also acknowledges. It is home to Tarrkarri—the Centre for First Nations Culture, which will honour over 60,000 years of continuous First Nations culture in this country. I very much hope that work on this centre can recommence and continue so that Adelaide can continue to cement itself as a significant world centre of art and culture and attract more visitors to our state.

What we have seen with what the Marshall Liberal government did at Lot Fourteen is the establishment of a truly world-class and vibrant space. It is a space that is already benefiting South Australia and it is this space that is going to continue to benefit South Australia well into the future. It is quite right that the Marshall Liberal government should be recognised for this outstanding achievement, and I am very proud to support this motion in its original form.

Mrs HURN (Schubert) (12:12): It is with a great sense of pride that I rise today to support the motion moved by the shadow minister for defence and space, the honourable member for Morphett.

Lot Fourteen is one of the nation's leading entrepreneurial hubs, and it has attracted interest not only from right around the nation but from right across the world. This is what I would say is one of those once-in-a-generation investments, indeed a once-in-a-generation opportunity. It is a beacon of opportunity that has created thousands and thousands of jobs and set up our state as the startup state, the startup capital of the nation.

Who would have thought that the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site would be transformed into a springboard of innovation that would bring together some of the sharpest minds across the nation, creating significant capabilities in space and defence, in cyber, in high-tech and in creative industries? It very nearly did not because as far as the Labor government at the time were concerned the boldest vision they could muster was to turn it not into a startup precinct for this generation and those to come but into a housing development—a housing development in this prime real estate in the heart of the city.

I am not very often gobsmacked, but today I am genuinely gobsmacked at the rewrite of history those opposite have tried to portray. I am not sure who wrote the amendments of the member for King, or whether she believes it was genuinely the initiative of Jay Weatherill and the former government, but that is false and dishonest. We know that.

In fact, it is not just those on this side of the house who know that but those thousands and thousands of South Australians who have started jobs on Lot Fourteen, those thousands of businesses that have seen opportunities come right here to our state. It is not just the big companies like Google, like Microsoft, like Amazon who decided to set up here in South Australia, but the little guys, too, who actually just have an idea that they want to pursue right here in South Australia. They are now no longer drawn to the eastern seaboard or to Hong Kong, London or New York to pursue their opportunities in space: they are staying right here in South Australia.

In fact, this is one of the key projects that played a significant part in the Marshall government reversing the brain drain, where all our smartest, most creative and ambitious people were leaving the state because they saw no future here. The reason they saw no future here is because of the catalyst decision of the then Weatherill government, which said, 'No. In fact, our vision reaches as high as housing flats.' It was Steven Marshall, the member for Dunstan, who prosecuted that vision, who absolutely left no stone unturned to use this once-in-a-generation opportunity to turn Lot Fourteen into a beacon of opportunity.

It is now one of the main reasons that South Australia is known as not only the defence state of the nation but also the space state of the nation. We are now home to the national Space Agency. The national Space Agency is right here in South Australia, and it is right here on North Terrace in Adelaide. We are home not just to the Space Agency but to Mission Control and hundreds and hundreds of people who are excited about the future of this state.

Every single premier at the time—from Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria—wanted it, and we got it here in South Australia. The reason we got it here in South Australia is that our former Premier actually had a vision, and that vision has been delivered. It is atrocious that those opposite are trying to claim some credit and pinch this idea.

Where do they get off suggesting that this was their idea? You could look anywhere to see that they wanted a housing development on it. It was as a result of the former Liberal government that we are now seeing more South Australians stay here in Adelaide to reach for the stars and to follow their own dreams. So it is with great pleasure that I support this motion.

I was listening to some of the contributions on this side of the house, and I would like to echo some of the comments made by the member for Frome. It is an important point to reflect on because, when people think about the national Space Agency, sometimes they rightly think about going to the Moon or going into outer space and launching rockets right from the heart of Adelaide, but actually sometimes it is much more practical than that.

We have farmers right across South Australia who are utilising some of the software and innovation that have been started and curated here. Ideas have been seeded and have grown into practical opportunities for farmers to utilise for their crops, to get more out of what they put in, and I think that is so fantastic. It is the direct result of the ambition of our former Premier Steven Marshall. It is the environment that he set up, the environment that said to businesses right across the world and right across the nation that South Australia is the place you want to be, that South Australia is the place where you can get ahead with a basic idea that starts right in the heart of the city, which the former government wanted for a housing development.

I do believe very strongly that this will be one of the biggest legacy items, not just for this generation but for those to come. It started with Steven Marshall, but ultimately the people who will be most rewarded are the people of South Australia and all those people who can stay here and set up a business right here in the state. I thank the member for putting forward this motion.

Mr PEDERICK (Hammond) (12:19): I rise to support this motion by the member for Morphett.

The Hon. B.I. Boyer: I'm looking forward to it.

Mr PEDERICK: You can have a go if you like.

The ACTING SPEAKER (Mr Brown): Order! The member will be heard in silence.

Mr PEDERICK: Thank you for your protection, sir. The motion is:

That this house—

(a) recognises that during its four year term the Marshall Liberal government completely transformed the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site into a hub of technology, innovation and culture;

(b) recognises that Lot Fourteen is creating thousands of jobs and showcasing South Australia to the world;

(c) recognises that Lot Fourteen is host to Australia’s national Space Agency, cementing South Australia as the national centre of Australia’s space industry;

(d) recognises that Lot Fourteen will showcase our rich and diverse Aboriginal culture to the world and attract more visitors to South Australia with establishment of the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre; and

(e) acknowledges the Marshall Liberal government for establishing a vibrant, world-class innovation, startup growth precinct at Lot Fourteen.

I, too, am agog that those on the other side would attempt to rewrite history and suggest that we enacted on a so-called Labor innovation under former Premier Weatherill to create an innovation and culture hub. What a pack of hogwash! That is probably as impolite as I can be.

Mr Teague: It's a technical term.

Mr PEDERICK: A technical term; that is a technical term. Seriously—people try to rewrite history, and this is what has happened here today, and it is completely outrageous. As the member for Schubert and others have rightfully said from this side, the best thing that the former Weatherill government could come up with was a block of flats. Seriously? It was going to be housing on some of the most prime land in South Australia.

We have arguments about what goes on parkland, and here we have a thriving innovation centre opportunity, which is the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site, and the best the other side, the former Labor government, could come up with is a block of flats. I look at some of that innovation that people are doing over there, and I think of the work of Myriota and others, with miniature satellites that can assist farming and agriculture and the work that they can do so that you can remotely look at water sources, whether they be tanks or troughs or bores or dams, especially for those people on vast properties who do not have the time to travel across thousands and thousands of square kilometres in some of those places.

I look at the opportunity for space that we have here in South Australia as we have seen over many years with what has happened up at Woomera. I had not been there before and I dropped in a few years ago and it is amazing the history of what we have done out of Woomera. I look at what we have been doing in more recent times with Southern Launch systems and looking at the launch site at Koonibba Aboriginal community not that far from Ceduna on the West Coast and the work that happens there where the launch operators come in. They have a lot of material in containers, they have a launch, everything gets packed up and they take everything away. It virtually leaves the land unscathed.

I look at the work that is happening at Whaler's Way with potential to launch there. Space is the frontier that we have been looking at so many times and it offers so much opportunity and innovation. Our former government did recognise the opportunity to create this hub of technology, innovation and culture to create these thousands of jobs and showcase this state to the world. This whole project is a $2.2 billion world-class innovation district on North Terrace and it is a curated collaborative research and business ecosystem dedicated to driving productivity and solving complex global challenges on the site of the former Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Many companies have been attracted to this site and attracted to South Australia, which is a fantastic place to live. I am not a city boy, but if I had to live in a city I would pick Adelaide. So many people have come here from either interstate or across the world either to set up their startups or to take their businesses further into the future. It is a major economic opportunity for our state. It is one of the most exciting urban renewal projects in Australia and the centrepiece of the 10-year Adelaide City Deal to provide a springboard for innovation and bring together the state's leading abilities in space, defence, high-tech and creative industries.

Back on 12 December 2018, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, alongside the former Premier, the Hon. Steven Marshall MP, announced that the Australian Space Agency was to be based in Adelaide at Lot Fourteen. This created a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that positioned South Australia as a key player in the nation's space industry. The decision to make South Australia the home of the Australian Space Agency could be largely attributed to our vibrant and entrepreneurial space ecosystem.

Lot Fourteen is also home to the headquarters of the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre, as well as the Mission Control Facility and the Space Discovery Centre. The SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre is one of the most significant space research collaborations ever forged in Australia. This research powerhouse brings together around 85 international and national partners. The Mission Control Centre is a focal point for space missions in Australia and accelerates growth of the space sector.

The centre provides the facilities for space startups, companies and researchers to control small satellite missions, enabling real-time control and testing and the accelerated development of Australian satellite technology. The Space Discovery Centre provides real leaps ahead in science, technology, engineering and mathematics or, as we know it, STEM. It is about education, engagement and inspirations for young Australians.

As an integral part of South Australia's growing innovation network, Lot Fourteen is leveraging the power of collaboration to drive innovation and the organisation and commercialisation of cutting-edge research into global markets, supporting world-class research and development excellence in the space, defence, high-tech and creative industries. The Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre is setting the global pace for multidisciplinary innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship, which is specifically designed to suit the secure environment for defence, space and high-tech businesses and education and research institutions.

The flagship building will be a 16-level, 35,000 square metre building, which will be central to this area and home to a flexible campus-style innovation hub and ground floor collaborative event and food and beverage retail spaces. This is where the rubber hits the road. Already this year—2022—Lot Fourteen is home to a skilled workforce of more than 1,400 people from over 140 businesses attracting some of the world's most innovative organisations, including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, the Commonwealth Bank and MITRE Corporation. They work alongside highly respected organisations, including the Australian Space Agency, MIT, the University of Adelaide's Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Stone & Chalk and the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre.

Let us never forget who was responsible for Lot Fourteen: it was Steven Marshall and the former Liberal government.

Mr WHETSTONE (Chaffey) (12:29): I, too, rise to support a very important motion by the member for Morphett because, as many of us would know in this place, the opportunity for South Australia to attract some of the brightest minds globally has been groundbreaking. I want to acknowledge the former Premier for his forward vision and his forward thinking for what he saw as an opportunity for South Australia to be an incubator as well as a support base for what the world is heading towards—that is, advanced technologies. It is about having an incubator hub in the CBD of Adelaide that is drawing attention to and putting focus on South Australia as a go-to, particularly for the advanced technology we now rely on as our new manufacturing base.

It is also something that I have been very focused on. As a former Minister for Primary Industries, I saw fit to what I would consider as hanging my hat on the Lot Fourteen hook to acknowledge the advancement of agtech here in South Australia and also for the primary sector to have a go-to centre or an attractant centre for the advancement of agriculture. I saw very early on in my term that South Australia, particularly the ag sector, food producers and the primary production area, needed some form of stimulus. What came away from the former Premier's vision was an ability for me to go to the then Treasurer and put proposals and policy on the table so we could potentially stimulate some of the forward thinking within agtech.

What I saw in my tenure as minister was that there were huge opportunities not only for new technology but for advancement in the already existing technology in the ag sector. We know that in recent times we have seen a lot of government institutions around the R&D programs within SARDI and under the umbrella of PIRSA, which gave me the opportunity to go to the private sector, just as the Premier did with Lot Fourteen, and attract some of that interest and attract some of those inquisitive minds so we could progress the ag tech sector not just through a government lens. It was about giving the private sector the opportunity to be a part of an open-door precinct, and that is what we saw over a lot of the research stations administered by PIRSA.

We saw that down at Struan. I want to acknowledge the catastrophic fire in the science lab there in recent times. It is such a pity that it happened, but we move on. As a primary producer myself, we are the eternal optimists, so we look forward at every opportunity. I am sure Struan will rebuild those labs just like any other business would do in a time of uncertainty.

The opportunity is more about looking through the lens of a private business wanting to make good within the advancement of agtech. What we have seen is a collaboration between PIRSA, SARDI and the Thomas Elder Institute as a prime example of what we saw down at Struan and at Kybybolite and also what we have seen, in particular, with opportunities within the forestry sector.

I do not digress away from Lot Fourteen. What I am trying to demonstrate is that we had a vision—the seed was planted—at Lot Fourteen on North Terrace. The government wanted to put apartment blocks there, but the former Premier had a vision for making South Australia a better place to attract business, to be an incubator for manufacturing and to also attract the world's attention to our shores, and he has done that. As I listened to some of the government's contributions this morning, I was gobsmacked to think that they would not commend and give some level of appreciation for what a vision means here in South Australia, particularly at Lot Fourteen.

The vision that we have seen through government or the PIRSA agencies right across South Australia has meant that we have been able to open the door and have that policy to allow the private sector to come into our state and collaborate with government. I think that is a great outcome. I have mentioned the Thomas Elder foundation. I will mention Meat and Livestock Australia and AGT. GRDC and some of the great research and development institutions within the ag sector are now looking to South Australia for opportunity.

We know that some of the programs have been questioned as to why they would come to South Australia, but I think Lot Fourteen has now given the stimulus to any of those particularly commonwealth government focused bodies, whether it be in grains, whether it be in meat, whether it be in wine. The primary sector now has a focus on South Australia that there is opportunity, that there was a government that was focused on the advancement of the new technologies that potentially would grace our shores.

As the member for Morphett and others have contributed on this side of the chamber, the opportunities have been many and, I guess, quite diverse. We look at space, we look at defence, we look at all the other advanced technologies that would help us in our day-to-day lives. I think the opportunity has been that we are seeing that growth with advanced manufacturing. I want to pay homage to every business that has an investment in Lot Fourteen. We say thank you for showing faith in what the former Premier had a vision for in South Australia.

I would also like to quickly reiterate the opportunities that Lot Fourteen is presenting. It is about some of the satellite imagery. It is about making primary producers, not just people here in South Australia but globally, more productive. We know that the world is screaming out for more protection and more monitoring on food production. We know that the world is screaming out for better and safer measures put in place, with threats of biosecurity, and again that is some of the technology that has been overlaid within agriculture.

We look at the defence industry, how it is working collaboratively with the ag sector, and we look at some of the great technologies that agtech has put its arm around and that have come into the fold. We are very proud to have the Agtech Advisory Group. That was very well put together. Leanna Read was the chair and she has done an outstanding job as a leader all around South Australia, but particularly embracing that AgTech Advisory Group. There are great strategic thinkers coming together looking at ways that they can format and have that exchanging of ideas, those gatherings to stimulate people's thinking.

The workshops they are doing right around all those diverse sectors I think have been an outstanding success, and it is all on the back of what the former Premier's vision was. It is about advancement in South Australia with the technology and all the sectors that I think will lead South Australia into a very exciting advancement of manufacturing, advancement of space and defence, making sure that we in South Australia are proud of what we have on North Terrace at Lot Fourteen.

We are very disappointed to see that the Indigenous cultural centre has been pushed aside. I call it kicking the can down the road, but the government would say that they have deferred that project because they have had other priorities elsewhere. I urge them to reconsider not deferring that project any longer than it has to be. It was there to complement what is one of the most exciting precincts anywhere, not only in South Australia, not only nationally, but right around the globe. The globe's eyes are watching South Australia. They are watching Lot Fourteen for the opportunity in advancement with any technology that we care to talk about. I commend the motion.

Mr PATTERSON (Morphett) (12:39): Firstly, I rise to say that I totally reject the amendments put by the member for King. Any look at this attempt to rewrite history plainly undoes it very quickly. Planning for what was to be done on the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site started in 2013. It took the Weatherill government three years to actually come up with a plan, which in 2016 was the net sum of a housing development and 1,300 apartment blocks.

A deal with Commercial and General went along for a while and, all of a sudden, in September 2017 the announcement was that it was not going to go ahead and, instead, the new plan would preference short-term and student accommodation to be released in stages. Any thought that housing development could be classified as technology and innovation is plausibly incorrect.

In fact, to further belie this statement, when the Marshall government came in in March 2018 with this innovative plan for Lot Fourteen to turn it into an innovation and technology hub, the first thing that had to be done was to undo the deal that was still in place with Commercial and General. Such was Labor's plan for innovation and technology there that it was still really rooted heavily in short-term housing and student accommodation.

Compare that with Premier Marshall and the effort he put in to really progress in a rapid state what was to go on in Lot Fourteen. I think that the real rubber hit the road when, alongside the former Prime Minister, on 12 December 2018 he signed the City Deal, which was then to provide significant hundreds of millions of dollars of funding into this precinct to unlock it. Alongside this was the fact that the national Space Agency was going to be located on that site at Lot Fourteen.

The efforts Premier Marshall made into getting the Space Agency to land in Lot Fourteen were significant. As I said in my earlier remarks, the big push was to put it in Canberra and to play even stevens with all the states, but it was in South Australia where Premier Marshall saw the opportunity for it to really be the foundation piece for our space industry—and that it was. That City Deal was more than just the Space Agency: it was also about unlocking Lot Fourteen.

I spoke before about Mission Control and the money that went into that, I spoke before about the Space Discovery Centre and the money that went into that and I spoke before about the MIT Living Lab and the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre that sit alongside the Australian Institute for Machine Learning. Those institutions were attracted by what was going on in Lot Fourteen and what it could become, and they were vitally important. As I said, they then went on to unlock significant attraction in terms of business.

I talked before about AWS, Google and Microsoft Azure—these are massive worldwide players. One I did not get to mention was LVX Global, another fantastic company. It is a homegrown company based in Adelaide, and they specialise in delivering the Internet of Things and smart city building and infrastructure solutions. I can only surmise that that tenuous link is what Labor have between their 1,300 houses and actual technology innovation. The fact that we have companies here that want to set up in Lot Fourteen to do this smart city building and the Internet of Things right here in Lot Fourteen came about because of the work of the Marshall Liberal government.

Part of that City Deal, and something that was very forward leaning from Premier Marshall, was the significant $200 million commitment invested into the Aboriginal arts and culture centre, Tarrkarri as it is known, meaning 'the future' in Kaurna language. That is transformational for recognition of a 60,000-year culture that we have here in South Australia. We have pieces throughout in our museums, in our art galleries, and having that as a centrepiece to showcase to the world our Aboriginal arts and culture is going to be transformational.

Those opposite have decided to delay it, and I think that is a huge mistake and does not do justice to the fantastic art and culture the Indigenous community has here not only from the Kaurna world but also from the other nations in South Australia, making up that art and culture. Lot Fourteen has been significantly transformed, and I acknowledge the Marshall Liberal government for establishing a vibrant, world-class innovation and startup growth precinct in Lot Fourteen.

The house divided on the amendment:

Ayes 27

Noes 18

Majority 9

AYES

Andrews, S.E. Bettison, Z.L. Bignell, L.W.K.
Boyer, B.I. Brown, M.E. Champion, N.D.
Clancy, N.P. Close, S.E. Cook, N.F.
Fulbrook, J.P. Hildyard, K.A. Hood, L.P.
Hughes, E.J. Hutchesson, C.L. Koutsantonis, A.
Malinauskas, P.B. Michaels, A. Mullighan, S.C.
Odenwalder, L.K. (teller) Pearce, R.K. Piccolo, A.
Picton, C.J. Savvas, O.M. Stinson, J.M.
Szakacs, J.K. Thompson, E.L. Wortley, D.J.

NOES

Basham, D.K.B. Batty, J.A. Bell, T.S.
Cowdrey, M.J. Ellis, F.J. Gardner, J.A.W.
Hurn, A.M. Marshall, S.S. McBride, P.N.
Patterson, S.J.R. (teller) Pederick, A.S. Pisoni, D.G.
Pratt, P.K. Speirs, D.J. Tarzia, V.A.
Teague, J.B. Telfer, S.J. Whetstone, T.J.


Amendment thus carried; motion as amended carried.

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