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  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>National Water Initiative</name>
      <text id="201512029b79bbec3db74b8680000650">
        <heading>National Water Initiative</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="546" kind="question">
        <name>Mr WILLIAMS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">MacKillop</electorate>
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          <question date="2015-12-02">
            <name>National Water Initiative</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-12-02T15:04:21" />
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          <by role="member" id="546">Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop) (15:04):</by>  Supplementary: does the Treasurer accept that the National Water Initiative imposes obligations on government to ensure that water users are paying fair and equitable amounts for cost recovery?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
        <portfolios>
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            <name>Minister for Finance</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Small Business</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-12-02">
            <name>National Water Initiative</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-12-02T15:04:40" />
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Small Business) (15:04):</by>  He is asking for my opinion on the presentation of a policy. What I will do is consider the question and come back to him with a fulsome answer because what I suspect he is attempting to do is set a trap where I say something—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  I know, but it is in the traditional Liberal Party method—'We are coming to get you. Here's a trap. Please walk into it.' What I will do is consider the question asked by the member for MacKillop—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4339">Mr Whetstone interjecting:</event>
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      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201512029b79bbec3db74b8680000656">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Chaffey is warned for the second and final time.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201512029b79bbec3db74b8680000657">
          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  I will consider the question and the assertions made and the opinion sought in the question and get back to the member.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201512029b79bbec3db74b8680000658">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Little Para.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3124">
        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201512029b79bbec3db74b8680000659">
          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI:</by>  Point of order, sir.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201512029b79bbec3db74b8680000660">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I think it is going to be a bogus one.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124">
        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201512029b79bbec3db74b8680000661">
          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI:</by>  Perhaps I will consider it.</text>
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