The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (16:24): It gives me great pleasure to rise as the second speaker for the Greens to support this bill. It is described as the Planning, Development and Infrastructure
(Designated Live Music Venues and Protection of Crown and Anchor Hotel) Amendment Bill on our Notice Paper. For many people, it will be known as the 'save the Cranker bill'.

I certainly echo the other members who have congratulated the community of the Crown an Anchor Hotel, affectionately known as the Cranker to all who have enjoyed going there. If they could overcome the generational difference in how to spell 'the Cranker'—either with an 'er' or an 'a', which I discovered very quickly gave away my generation as much older than some of the other supporters of the Cranker—they can overcome anything. Indeed, they have absolutely moved mountains. I believe that this is a piece of legislation that shows the power of community and of that particular community to stand up and fight and win.

As someone who turned 18 at the Tivoli Hotel, not far from the Cranker, and used to enjoy the Producers, I am really glad to see that this bill also protects those live music pubs, particularly,
and venues that we have come to love. Of course, we will see the loss of Chateau Apollo and Roxie's, much loved, as part of this deal. We also know that South Australia is the second highest state and third highest jurisdiction for losing live music venues since COVID. Some 27 per cent have been lost. The names of those venues, most recently places like My Lover Cindi and others, just show that we
have a lot to protect when it comes to live music culture.

One of the areas of this debate that was overlooked, though, was that the Cranker was never at risk of going under and shutting because people were not there as punters, as live music lovers, as comedy enjoyers or, indeed, just frequenting the front bar. The Crown and Anchor was a roaring success. It was only the proposed development that put it under threat: it was not that it had no patrons. It was something that many in the Save the Cranker campaign were at great pains to point out.

But since COVID, we have lost a lot of our live music culture, and it does need to be nurtured. I am glad to see the Malinauskas government and the Liberal opposition pledge their support for a motion that I put before this place to investigate those live music venues, those creative venues, such as the Rhino Room and Confession down at Port Adelaide, which is currently ostensibly closed, only operating for one-off shows or private functions. Those sorts of venues that give creative life for not just artists but also audiences, that foot in the door, are so important.

I am really pleased to have seen this past weekend that the Crown and Anchor was inducted into the Hall of Fame—well overdue, I might say. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend that event,
but I note that Deputy Lord Mayor Keiran Snape gave a nice short speech. Short speeches seem to be the order of the day. For those who were unable to attend that Hall of Fame induction, I am really pleased to see that there is not only going to be a future for the Crown and Anchor well beyond these next few years but, while it will have to be closed for part of the development, it is enshrined in law that that not be over that particular two-year point and that a pop-up venue will be identified.

As the rally chant went—and these were some of the best rallies I have ever attended— 'music, arts and culture is more than bricks and mortar', but it does also need bricks and mortar. That is why I am really pleased that we have this piece of legislation that the Greens are very happy to support with amendment today. I commend the work of the Hon. Rob Simms, who has really led the charge here, and I really congratulate the Save the Cranker team for working over generations, across differences of opinion, to really unite, to stay the course and to absolutely see something quite historic in this parliament as recognition of not just their efforts but the importance of the Cranker to the community.

I hope in the future that we are going to see more live music and live creative venues, those places that provide comedy or theatre—the Holden Street Theatres, for example, or the Cue Bar that has people dancing near pool tables, which has incurred the wrath of local licensing enforcement at times and seen them before the courts. I hope that we see creative culture, and that bricks and mortar that supports creative culture, supported to flourish into the future. Post-COVID we should be building back better, and building back better means ensuring that live music and the creative scenes, and the communities such as those of Save the Cranker, are supported with that bricks and mortar. With that I commend the bill.