Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)
2007-11-13 Daily Xml

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GLENTHORNE FARM

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:43): As a supplementary question, will the minister confirm whether the government has specifically instructed the University of Adelaide that no Glenthorne Farm site will be developed?

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Police, Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning) (14:44): As I said, the honourable member had her FOI. If you get this stuff, why don't you read the letter? I do not have it here. I have not looked at the file for a long time because nothing has happened in relation to it for at least 12 months. In terms of what the correspondence says specifically, as I said, the honourable member has that. What is the point of having the FOI laws if members do not read the information? It is quite clear—

The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink interjecting:

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY: Mr President, I think the member is saying that the Labor candidate for Kingston would not be sleeping very well. So, the honourable member has dug up this FOI stuff that is 18 months old on a project that has been rejected by the government when there was a proposition about doing it, and she is now trying to suggest something. Let me repeat it. There was a proposition that the University of Adelaide put. It was unable to proceed with its original proposal. It would have been great if it could have grown the vineyards there but it could not do it. It wanted to look at some other option and the government did not support that option. Let me say that again: the government did not support that option 18 months or two years ago, and I am not aware of any subsequent proposal.