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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Parliamentary Committees

Select Committee on Redevelopment of Adelaide Oval

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (15:55): I move:

That the interim report of the select committee be noted.

The Select Committee on Redevelopment of Adelaide Oval was established by this council on 5 December 2018. The committee has spent the better part of 2019 inquiring into the redeveloped Adelaide Oval, its legal and governance framework, the financial management regime and the hotel development on the Adelaide Oval core area initiated by the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority.

In doing so, it has received 44 written submissions and heard oral evidence from 38 stakeholders. Whilst all stakeholders have agreed on the success of the former government's Adelaide Oval redevelopment, the committee received concerns regarding the development of a private hotel enterprise to be affixed to the stadium, and on the $42 million loan from the state government for its construction.

Another concern raised by witnesses in this inquiry is the issue of a hotel being built on Parklands, with such developments not necessarily being envisaged at the time of the negotiations between cricket and football which took place back in 2009 and which resulted in the regime we have for the Oval today.

On 21 November 2019, the committee resolved to produce an interim report to reflect the evidence as received to date in this inquiry. Of particular note is the committee's suggestion that the Auditor-General report on the expenditure of public moneys loaned to the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority for the construction of the hotel, in order to continue his auditing of the appropriation for the initial redevelopments. We considered that, given the Auditor-General had reported previously on public expenditure on the Oval, it made sense for the Auditor-General to continue in that occupation for the duration of the loan.

This will also ensure that the taxpayers of South Australia have access to public reporting on that hotel construction expenditure by the Stadium Management Authority. The committee will seek to continue this inquiry into the new year, I expect, and aims to produce a final report at the inquiry's completion. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all stakeholders who have provided written and oral evidence to the inquiry to date.

I would like to thank the honourable members of the committee: the Hon. Emily Bourke, the Hon. John Darley, the Hon. Dennis Hood, the Hon. Frank Pangallo and the Hon. Terry Stephens. I would like to also express on their behalf my thanks to the committee secretary, Ms Leslie Guy, and the committee research officer, Ms Lisa Baxter. With those words, I commend the committee's interim report to the council.

Motion carried.

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