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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Truro Bypass

Mrs HURN (Schubert) (14:19): My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Can the minister provide a project status update on the Truro freight route and confirm it will proceed?

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:19): That project is funded 80-20 by the commonwealth government. The commonwealth government knows that that project has not yet commenced, although it is in the detailed planning stage. The commonwealth government, at the beginning of its 90-day review, said that any project not yet commenced and if commenced by the state government and then subsequently cut by the commonwealth government, or not proceeded with or pushed out later, those states would bear the risks. So all those projects that are under contemplation by the commonwealth government have not proceeded if they have not started.

We are not going to proceed with work on the basis of having a funding split of 80-20, where we would begin some work and then if the commonwealth government decided not to proceed we would be responsible for the entire cost of that. We know that Truro has important benefits for South Australia, but so does the north-south corridor. We love all our children equally; we love all our infrastructure projects. Again, I keep on going back to this point: the previous government went out and talked about Truro a lot without doing very much.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: They went out and promised the Hahndorf money to every community group they spoke to, without doing anything—

The SPEAKER: Minister, there is a point of order.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for Hartley!

Mr Teague interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for Heysen!

The Hon. A. Koutsantonis interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for West Torrens! Member for Morialta.

The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER: Thank you, sir. Standing order 98: the minister is now well off the substance of the question and is debating.

The SPEAKER: I will listen carefully. There is some merit in the matter that has been raised. The minister will come to the question.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: As I said, that project is on hold, pending the outcome of the 90-day review. I look forward to what the commonwealth government have to say about this project. I do point out to the house again that this is not our review. We are ready to go on all these projects. We are ready—

The Hon. V.A. Tarzia interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Hartley!

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: —to do our bit.

The Hon. V.A. Tarzia interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Hartley is on a final warning.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: I tell you what won't work: yelling and shouting in the parliament won't give you an outcome. It won't give you an outcome. We are ready to go, but I do say also: if these projects were so important to the previous government, why weren't they started?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Chaffey is on a final warning, as are the member for Hartley and the member for Morialta—tempting the noose man.

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