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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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LIV Golf

The Hon. F. PANGALLO (15:11): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Attorney-General and the Premier in another place a question about the LIV Golf redevelopment.

Leave granted.

The Hon. F. PANGALLO: It has been quite an eventful week for the Premier's Caddyshack project with a worried government sending Greg Norman's design team into a panic to rework their plans after the likely extent of tree losses was revealed to make the championship-size golf course fit on the existing footprint. The Department of the Premier and Cabinet also revealed last week that the Greg Norman team will now scrap the plan for the driving range at Possum Park, which also has a par 3 course and where hundreds of remains and artifacts of the Kaurna are buried. It follows the front-page article in The Australian where elders were enraged that their sacred site would be disturbed and desecrated in excavations.

The Premier still refuses to come clean on the full cost of this project, which he claims will be $45 million. Experts dispute this and say it will be at least $135 million with a new clubhouse in the mix. For a typical championship-level course with the Greg Norman brand, a developer—in this case the state government—needs to budget for, in US dollars, a one-off design fee of between $US2 million and $US4 million, and construction costs of $US40 million-plus, which on today's exchange rate is about $A68.8 million.

Millions more will need to be spent on maintenance and associated costs, and notably an obligatory annual licensing fee paid to Mr Norman for the ongoing use of his name. This is par for the course in contracts signed with celebrity golfers who design courses, like Mr Norman, Gary Player, Nick Faldo and of course the great Jack Nicklaus. It is my understanding that the Shark charges anywhere between $US100,000 and $US500,000 a year. My questions are:

1. Will the government have to pay an ongoing licensing fee to Greg Norman for the use of his name once the course is completed? If yes, how much, and frequency of payment, monthly or annually, and is it an obligatory fee?

2. What is the amount for the naming rights fee which has been negotiated?

3. Where will the driving range now be located and what works will be needed to create this facility?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (15:14): I think answers have been given to many questions that have been raised by the Hon. Frank Pangallo, and I think many of the answers have been that it hasn't been finalised yet. So the Hon. Frank Pangallo either has some sort of crystal ball through which he can see into the future and he is magically transporting himself into the future and coming back with answers, or he is just plucking things out of thin air. I will pass those questions on to the Premier in another place, but I am not going to commit to bringing back a reply because, quite frankly, I am just not sure there is one.

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