GOYDER HIGHWAY

The Hon. G.G. BROCK (Frome) (14:52): My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Can the minister please advise when the people from the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure will visit the Goyder Highway section of road between Crystal Brook and Gulnare and inspect this road with me, as requested by myself on 31 July 2018? With your leave, Mr Speaker, and that of the house, can I please explain further? Leave granted.

The Hon. G.G. BROCK: I responded to the minister’s request to my correspondence on 10 April last year, which was received from the minister on 25 July, where the minister stated that the election commitment from this government to reinstate the eight regional roads previously reduced to 100 km/h was going through a systematic review of country roads. I responded that I disagreed with the department’s analysis of this road, and their reasons, and asked for an on-site inspection of that road with the department.

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:53): Well, I wasn’t part of the cabinet that reduced those eight speed limits—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —but we are the ones who are going to put them back.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: We are the ones who are going to put them back. We are getting much closer day by day to finalising that report and being able to make that known about how it is that we are going to put these speed limits back up to 110 km/h, and we are committed to getting it done.