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Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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Question Time

Northern Adelaide Food Park

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:29): Can I just ask, Mr President, before we start, are the cameras being tested this week?

The PRESIDENT: Yes, they are being tested, but they are not live.

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY: I just want to make sure that I have my makeup right and look my best, have my best side!

Members interjecting:

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY: Okay. I seek leave now, Mr President, to make a brief explanation before asking the Leader of the Government questions about the Northern Adelaide Food Park.

Leave granted.

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY: I think it was in the Economic and Finance Committee meeting last month that PIRSA representatives stated that the decision to locate the Food Park at Parafield will not be made for up to two months. It was said also that the government was also considering some other locations.

The minister here is responsible for the government's Northern Economic Plan. PIRSA is listed as one of the agencies that has been working with DSD on this plan and has been asked to identify a number of northern Adelaide projects. My questions to the minister are:

1. What other sites are being considered by PIRSA and DSD, and have been shortlisted as possible locations for the food park in the northern Adelaide suburbs?

2. Will the budget that has been allocated—I think nearly $9 million now—be carried forward to the new site if a new site is chosen?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy) (14:31): I thank the honourable member for his question. I think we have discussed this in here before about which minister has responsibility for certain projects in northern Adelaide. Implicit in the honourable member's question was where departmental and ministerial responsibility will lie after this project. He is correct: this is a project being carried by PIRSA, and minister Bignell, the member for Mawson in another place, has carriage of the food park project. He is an absolute champion for the food industries in South Australia, and is doing a fantastic job in those areas, and in other portfolios he is doing a fantastic job.

We had an opportunity for cabinet to meet on Kangaroo Island a couple of weeks ago, and I think that everyone was absolutely blown away and amazed at the level of support and respect the Minister for Tourism and Minister for Primary Industries has on Kangaroo Island. It was phenomenal. It was almost like they accept him as a local on that island. He is doing an absolutely fantastic job.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: There are interjections, complaining that a minister spends time in the country, and it is an interjection we have had before, that a minister would have the temerity to spend time in regional South Australia representing their portfolio interests. We will continue to do that.

In relation to the specific questions asked, I am happy to take them on notice and ask the minister responsible for this project those very specific questions, as I am happy to take on notice questions relating to other projects happening in northern Adelaide—infrastructure projects—if the honourable member wants to ask me about them. I am happy to take them on notice and pass it on to the member responsible for infrastructure.

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