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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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North Adelaide Public Golf Course

Mr TELFER (Flinders) (15:06): My question is to the Premier. Will the government have to pay an ongoing licensing fee to Greg Norman for the use of his name once the North Adelaide Golf Course redevelopment project is completed and, if so, how much? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr TELFER: Celebrity golfers who design golf courses, like Greg Norman, Gary Player and the great Jack Nicklaus are known to charge licensing fees to use their names to promote golf courses they have designed. Greg Norman's rate is believed to be anywhere between $US100,000 and $US500,000 a year.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (15:06): I am not aware of that proposition. I am happy to take advice on it and get an answer back for the shadow treasurer. What I would say is that there was a process undertaken within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet to test the arrangement in terms of the fees, and the contracting arrangements between the state government and Greg Norman Golf Course Design, to make sure that they were appropriate and competitive, and that benchmarking exercise, or that undertaking, was important before the state government entered into a contractual arrangement to deliver the golf course.

What I would say is that obviously it is a big opportunity for the state to have a world-class golf course in the city, a public golf course. We know that these deliver very substantial economic dividends. In fact, last weekend I was with the Speaker—I was with you, sir—on Kangaroo Island, and it was very interesting. We were getting around and talking to a lot of people about the algal bloom and the impact on the tourism sector within Kangaroo Island. As I am sure the Speaker himself can attest to—he is, of course, the local MP—one thing that kept coming up was the new golf course being built on Kangaroo Island and the sense of optimism that exists amongst tourism operators on Kangaroo Island at the prospect of having a genuinely world-class golf course there. That won't be a public golf course; it's a private golf course.

In fact, even one of the oyster growers that the Speaker and I met with at American River was talking about potential opportunities that they see for their particular enterprise as a result of the golf course being installed on Kangaroo Island. These will be big drivers of economic activity, which is why we make commercial decisions around it and will continue to do so. We certainly welcome not just any scrutiny that the opposition want to provide, but we particularly welcome the increasing level of opposition that the Liberal Party seek to advocate around this golf course, because it demonstrates you for the recalcitrants or opponents that you are to substantial and thoughtful economic development in the state.

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