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Shopping Centre Parking

Ms SAVVAS (Newland) (14:58): My question is to the Minister for Planning. Can the minister provide an update on the enactment of the shopping centre parking areas bill and whether he is aware of any alternate views on those measures?

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Planning) (14:58): I can. I thank the member for Newland for her question. It seems like only last sitting week we were celebrating the great win for consumers, for workers, for small business owners, on the first-year anniversary on the enactment of our paid parking legislation. And there—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: —can be no doubt about what this side of the house thinks, absolutely no doubt about what this side of the house thinks, and the public I think deserve to know what the alternative government thinks. We now have some new social media posts that might assist the house.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: Of course, it is worth going back—

The Hon. V.A. Tarzia interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Hartley, order!

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: —in time to when paid parking was first introduced by Westfield and the Liberal government and the now leader, the member for Black, said, and I quote: that a bill to stop Westfield from implementing paid parking across its sites wasn't a legislative priority. It wasn't 'a legislative priority'. But it was for this government. We made it a legislative priority and we passed the act.

When we were legislating, the shadow planning spokesperson, Michelle Lensink, on 3 November 2022 foretold of doom, and I will quote her. She said:

No doubt we will see the situation where nobody will be able to park in certain parts of the Tea Tree Plaza car park from 8:45. That is going to result in more local traffic spilling over into the adjoining streets. This legislation is not going to fix anything at all. It is just going to create more chaos and difficulty…

It was really, really interesting to see her post on X, formerly Twitter, last week mocking our paid parking legislation. First of all, we had the member for Hartley trying to claim the park-and-ride in Tea Tree Plaza, something that was conceived by the Weatherill government—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: —stopped in the Marshall government's first budget and then built by the Minister for Transport. First of all, we had a bit of an audition for the leadership and then close on the heels came Michelle Lensink, the opposition's planning spokesperson, who had a sarcastic post about the empty staff car park at Tea Tree Plaza. Before the legislation, there was going to be this—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: —massive congestion around Tea Tree Plaza. You wouldn't be able to find a park and then after the legislation passed we were attacked for empty staff car parks. I can't work out where you stand really. You're all over the place, contradicting yourselves. Are you for it, are you against it? You can never quite be sure. But I think you should just be honest with yourselves because it is going to come up every anniversary of this legislation. As we get closer to the election, it is going to be a big issue in the north-east—it is going to be a big issue in the north-east.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: What would a Liberal government do? Would they repeal the legislation?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for Newland!

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: I think they might be tempted to repeal the legislation.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Hartley!

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: Or would a future Liberal planning minister just approve it? Just give it the tick. What's your position? You have to come clean with the people of South Australia.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for West Torrens is called to order. There are a significant number of interjections to my left and right.

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