"I'm choosing to scrap the basketball stadium and invest in our health system."
That was how then SA Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas announced a key part of his election campaign on social media back in June 2021.
The campaign — focused on "fixing the ramping crisis" — helped Labor storm back to power after just one term in opposition.
A large plank of the campaign was not going ahead with the Marshall government's plan to spend more than $600 million building a multi-purpose city arena.
It would have sat on the banks of the Torrens, with a capacity of 15,000, and the capacity to host conventions, concerts and basketball and netball games.
At least some of the cost would have been offset by a planned sale of the Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Hindmarsh to developers.
When it was first announced, Mr Malinauskas appeared open to the idea.
But just a few months later, he came out strongly against it, saying with a health system in crisis, it wasn't the right time to build the Riverbank Arena — which Labor from then on referred to exclusively as a "basketball stadium".
The price tag was high, and in a campaign focused overwhelmingly on health, it was an easy target.
