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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Defence Naval Shipbuilding

The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Leader of the Opposition) (14:08): My question is again to the Premier.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The interjections are preventing the leader being heard. The leader.

The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS: My question is to the Premier. Does the Premier stand by his comments of 19 October, and if so what does he claim to do about it? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS: On 19 October the Premier said, and I quote:

If the government were to abandon Hunter from the earlier stages then the problem with that would be straight back to the drawing board and we go immediately back into a valley of death.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:09): Of course, I do, Mr Speaker.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: Our position is very clear.

The Hon. S.S. Marshall: Shoot him a text.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: The member for Dunstan seems to be a little bit chipper today, sir. The member for Dunstan is very chipper, sir—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Chaffey, the member for West Torrens, the member for Schubert—in fact, nearly 47 members, almost all at once, are interjecting and contributing when the Premier is seeking to make a contribution of his own. The Premier has the call.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: Thank you, sir. I say to the member for Dunstan, if two out of three ain't bad, then one out of three is. We certainly won't be taking any—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: I can assure you of that, sir.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Member for Florey!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: ln respect to the Leader of the Opposition's question—

Mr Whetstone interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Chaffey!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: My remarks on 19 October, and all my remarks in respect of this program, remain unchanged. The consequences—

The Hon. S.S. Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —of a departure of the federal government away from the Hunter class program, in the first instance, would have very severe consequences.

The Hon. S.S. Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for Dunstan!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: This weekend down at Osborne we are seeing a very substantial effort—

Mrs Hurn interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Schubert!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —where both the state government and the commonwealth, along with the Navy—

Mr Brown interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Florey!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —will be holding a jobs expo down at Osborne—

The Hon. S.S. Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Premier, please be seated. The—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Members to my left and right, order! The member for Dunstan, amongst others, seems to believe he is at a Norwood football match, but that is actually not the case. It is the last sitting day of the week and there is a vigour in the room, but can we please observe the standing orders.

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis: It's like a night at the Fringe, Steven.

The SPEAKER: Order! The Premier has the call.

The Hon. S.S. Marshall interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: The member for Dunstan pipes up again asking: what jobs? With a record low unemployment rate, who would have thought someone couldn't find a job in the state of South Australia?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Florey is warned, the member for Morphett is warned, the member for Chaffey is warned.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for Mawson! The member for Florey is warned for a second time.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for West Torrens! The member for Dunstan is warned.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: Mr Speaker, down at Osborne this weekend, in conjunction with the Royal Australian Navy, we are conducting a comprehensive jobs expo for the extraordinary amount of opportunity that exists—

Mr Cowdrey interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Colton is warned.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —at the moment. We are—

The Hon. J.A.W. Gardner interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Morialta!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —looking forward to continuing to partner with organisations such as BAE. Down at Findon Technical College, as we speak, we are well and truly under construction—

The Hon. J.A.W. Gardner interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Morialta is warned.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: We have a technical college that is being built as we speak with very substantial enrolments for the advanced manufacturing course, where young South Australians will be able to conclude their advanced manufacturing program at school, graduate from that with their SACE, and then go straight into BAE with a guaranteed job at the end of it. This is a government that is working assiduously to make sure that we are investing in the skills and the workforce that is going to be required for one of the—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —biggest programs we have seen in the history of the state when it comes to naval shipbuilding.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Hartley is warned. Member for Badcoe! Member for West Torrens!

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