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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Goods and Services Tax</name>
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        <heading>Goods and Services Tax</heading>
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        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Goods and Services Tax</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (15:27):</by>  My question is, in fact, to the Treasurer. Does the Treasurer agree with his federal colleague, Nick Champion, that the GST is a regressive taxation instrument that goes against Labor values, and that everybody in the Labor Party should oppose it?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="speech">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Finance</name>
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            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy</name>
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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) (15:27):</by>  The member for Wakefield is entitled to his opinion, and—</text>
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        <name>Mr Marshall</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall:</by>  That wasn't the question; what's your view?</text>
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        <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>  My view, Mr Speaker, is I agree entirely with the tactics of the Premier of South Australia—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I call to order the member for Unley and the member for Morphett, and I warn for the first time the member for Kavel.</text>
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