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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Bowering Hill Dam</name>
      <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000508">
        <heading>Bowering Hill Dam</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="question">
        <name>Ms CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
        <portfolios>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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        </portfolios>
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          <question date="2017-04-13">
            <name>Bowering Hill Dam</name>
          </question>
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        <startTime time="2017-04-13T14:37:37" />
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          <by role="member" id="1804">Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:37):</by>  A supplementary: does the minister have any interest in any land, or beneficial interest in any enterprise, that will benefit from the proposed Bowering Hill dam water proposal?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Mawson</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Agriculture</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Forests</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Tourism</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Recreation and Sport</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Racing</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2017-04-13">
            <name>Bowering Hill Dam</name>
          </question>
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        <startTime time="2017-04-13T14:37:59" />
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000510">
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          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL (Mawson—Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Recreation and Sport, Minister for Racing) (14:37):</by>  I thank the deputy leader again for the question. This is a proposal put up by a person who was the favoured candidate to be the Liberal candidate for the seat of Mawson, Mr Jock Harvey. He is actually the person behind this proposal. Jock and I don't actually see eye to eye on politics, so I don't think I am going to be in business with him. Again, let me just think. I have to go through this because there was a fair bit to the question. Do I benefit from it? I do because there are some amazing wines that come off there. As I mentioned in my earlier answer—</text>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000511">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000512">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  —we all love the great wine that comes from McLaren Vale so, yes, that is—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000513">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  It would be very good if the deputy leader didn't make personal reflections on members across the chamber.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000514">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  There are wonderful wines that come out of there, but I am not the only beneficiary. Anyone who enjoys wine is going to benefit from this wonderful region.</text>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000515">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <page num="9347" />
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000516">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  This is good. I might sit back, get some popcorn and watch these guys go at it. This is going alright, isn't it? I might pop my Easter egg—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. Snelling</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000517">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. Snelling:</by>  You thought sitting between Mundine and Green was—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000518">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  Yes, Mundine and Green was good. This is even better.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000519">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The Minister for Health is called to order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000520">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  I think what happens is that a lot of people put a lot of stuff up on Facebook. It's a bit like when you get dodgy documents delivered to you, like the member for Unley—</text>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000521">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000522">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  Here we go!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000523">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Point of order, member for Morialta.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4343">
        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000524">
          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER:</by>  Quarrels in the house are disorderly.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000525">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  But they're having such a good time. Minister.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000526">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  A bit like when the member for Unley got those dodgy documents: you shouldn't always believe what you see. There was some stuff on Facebook—</text>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000527">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000528">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  A lot of people put a lot of stuff on Facebook. We have seen some stuff this week that was not very pleasant on Facebook, and people say things that aren't true on Facebook. People send things in the mail to the member for Unley that aren't true, but only fools believe stuff and take stuff at face value. The member for Unley did that.</text>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000529">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000530">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000531">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="614">The Hon. J.M. Rankine interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000532">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! The member for Wright is warned.</text>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000533">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000534">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Wright is warned a second and a final time. Minister, McLaren Vale.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3117" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000535">
          <by role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. BIGNELL:</by>  While we have spent the past 12 months building the tourism industry by $900 million, creating an extra 4,000 jobs, and while we have taken the agribusiness sector up by $1.6 billion, while we have been doing that, working side by side with the agriculture sector, working side by side with the tourism sector and putting $40 million extra into the sport budget, while we have been doing that you guys have been googling Facebook to see what untruths have been written about me so you can come in here and ask questions.</text>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000536">I have no interest in any land on vineyards in McLaren Vale or any other part of South Australia. The only bit of land I own in McLaren Vale is my own house, which is inside the town boundary of McLaren Vale. I think there might be a glory vine out the back.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20170413ce2c9d577fdb46dba0000537">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  A further supplementary.</text>
      </talker>
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