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

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Leader of the Opposition) (14:25): My question is to the Premier. How many trees will be cut down as part of the North Adelaide Golf Course redevelopment, and will it be more than the government has previously identified? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my right will come to order.

Leave granted.

The Hon. V.A. TARZIA: While unwilling to put a number on himself, the Minister for Infrastructure has said publicly that he will resign if the number of trees predicted as needing to be axed is more than 5,000, which was the number that was quoted by a globally recognised golf designer, and is wrong.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:25): I will tell you what the number is not going to be: anywhere near 5,400. I and the government welcome that the Leader of the Opposition has been so willing to stake his reputation—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader is on his final warning.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: The Leader of the Opposition is so willing to stake his reputation on a nonsense prediction that has been made by Frank Pangallo—

The Hon. V.A. Tarzia interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The leader can leave question time for the next 10 minutes.

The honourable member for Hartley having withdrawn from the chamber:

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: It's not anywhere near 5,400—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Morphett—

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —but the Leader of the Opposition has staked his reputation on that number, which means all your reputations—

The SPEAKER: Premier, will you sit down. The member for Morphett, you can leave question time until the end of question time.

The honourable member for Morphett having withdrawn from the chamber:

The SPEAKER: People will listen to the Premier's answer in silence. The Premier.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: They are working hard, Mr Speaker. They are working hard to try to turn this project into a point of difference. We welcome it being a point of difference, because this is a government that believes in investing in our Parklands for public use, for public amenity, investing in facilities that the Adelaide City Council themselves have always wanted to do but have never had the capacity to be able to do it. We are here, willing and ready to help. We are going to make a difference. It will be an absolutely positive difference for the thousands of people who use the golf course and all the people who walk through the golf course. More than that, it will deliver a major economic dividend and benefit to the state.

What you don't realise is just how unwise it is, in my view, to stake your reputations on a prediction that is so beyond the pale, so insanely exaggerated, but you are willing to do it, and that is your prerogative. But when it plays out, when all of this plays out in a way that will be completely transparent before every South Australian, everyone will remember 5,400 trees was the prediction that they thought would be chopped down. Let's wait and see how that plays out because it won't be anything like that.

The legacy of this project for you will be you hitching your wagon to Frank Pangallo, being seen to be opposed to yet another successful, ambitious project for the state. On this side of the house we're just getting things done: getting things done that are making a difference for our economy and for people who use these types of assets. That's our legacy. Yours is a silly prediction that will be proved to be completely wrong.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my right will come to order so I can hear the deputy leader.

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