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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2017-04-11" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
    <text id="20170411d013d1979097445890001261">
      <heading>Estimates Replies</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Students First</name>
      <text id="20170411d013d1979097445890001262">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Students First</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2017-04-11">
            <name>Students First</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20170411d013d1979097445890001263">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER (Morialta)</by> (29 July 2016).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Education and Child Development</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Higher Education and Skills</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2017-04-11">
            <name>Students First</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20170411d013d1979097445890001264">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4622">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills):</by>  I have been advised of the following:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20170411d013d1979097445890001265">
          <inserted>All the additional funding under the National Education Reform Agreement (NERA) is invested for the benefit of schools and students.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20170411d013d1979097445890001266">
          <inserted>This includes 20 disability inclusion officers that work with schools across the state.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20170411d013d1979097445890001267">
          <inserted>The state Labor government remains committed to the full six years of State funding under the NERA, including more than $90 million in indexation and additional funding in 2019 alone.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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