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  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Essential Services Commission Report</name>
      <text id="201706202218aca2cf1c4641a0000686">
        <heading>Essential Services Commission Report</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4341" kind="question">
        <name>Mr TRELOAR</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Flinders</electorate>
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          <question date="2017-06-20">
            <name>Essential Services Commission Report</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-06-20T14:43:13" />
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          <by role="member" id="4341">Mr TRELOAR (Flinders) (14:43):</by>  Supplementary: so, minister, why did you instruct ESCOSA to publish the report on 9 June, which just happened to be the same day as the release of the Finkel report?</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>
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            <name>Minister for Finance</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy</name>
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          <question date="2017-06-20">
            <name>Essential Services Commission Report</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-06-20T14:43:27" />
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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) (14:43):</by>  I will check with ESCOSA about why they published it on their website on the ninth. Perhaps there is a reason for that; I don't know, but I will endeavour from now on not to hide things on public display on the internet ever again.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <page num="10097" />
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  I know. It's like in 2014, when we sent the Economic and Finance Committee a full report about removing remissions on the emergency services levy and hid it when we gave it directly to the Liberal Party and they didn't even read their reports. Of course, this is typical of the opposition. They are lazy. They don't read reports. They don't do any work. Other people write their questions. They rely on journalists—</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343">
        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201706202218aca2cf1c4641a0000691">
          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER:</by>  Point of order, sir.</text>
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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>  —to give them questions in question time. They are the laziest opposition in Australia and the laughing stock of their party.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201706202218aca2cf1c4641a0000693">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Point of order, the member for Morialta.</text>
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        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER:</by>  No. 98 declines the Treasurer the opportunity to do this.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I call to order the member for Chaffey and I uphold that point of order. The member for Hammond.</text>
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