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  <date date="2015-12-01" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>State Emergency Relief Fund</name>
      <text id="2015120182d732a22e4a447a90001093">
        <inserted>
          <heading>State Emergency Relief Fund</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="1807" kind="question">
        <name>Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-09-22" qonNum="99">
            <name>State Emergency Relief Fund</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="2015120182d732a22e4a447a90001094">
          <inserted>99 <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett)</by> (22 September 2015).  As at 30 June 2015, how much money was in the Bushfire Recovery Assistance Fund and who manages it?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4623" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Ramsay</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Social Housing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Multicultural Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Ageing</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Youth</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Volunteers</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2015-09-22" qonNum="99">
            <name>State Emergency Relief Fund</name>
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        <text id="2015120182d732a22e4a447a90001095">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4623">The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay—Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Ageing, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers):</by>  I have been advised: </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2015120182d732a22e4a447a90001096">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;As at 30 June 2015, donations totalling $1,910,169 had been received into the State Emergency Relief Fund (SERF).</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2015120182d732a22e4a447a90001097">
          <inserted>On 3 January 2015, SERF and the SERF Committee were activated to administer the receipt and approve distribution of moneys donated by the community to assist the people who suffered loss or damage as a result of the Sampson Flat bushfire, subject to the directions of the Governor.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2015120182d732a22e4a447a90001098">
          <inserted>The Fund is administered by the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion, which also provides policy and secretariat support to the SERF Committee.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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