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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Land Services SA</name>
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        <heading>Land Services SA</heading>
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        <name>Ms CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Land Services SA</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1804">Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:01):</by>  Supplementary: why is it that the government is prepared to make public the Elon Musk battery contract, subject to some redaction, I accept, but not make available a $1.6 billion contract for the sale of Land Services?</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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            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy</name>
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          <question date="2017-09-27">
            <name>Land Services SA</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) (15:02):</by>  That's not what I said. What I said was that all aspects of the contract that impact on South Australians and the way that they interact with the Lands Titles Office have been made public, that is, in terms of the way indefeasibility of title is managed, the way—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The deputy leader is warned for the second and the very last time.</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>  All the aspects in terms of the cost structure will be public. All the generals who relate to the Lands Titles Office will remain independent and statutory officers constructed in this parliament. Indeed, even the Treasury indexation for the fee structure of the Lands Titles Office has been made public. Every aspect of every way South Australians deal with and touch the Lands Titles Office has been made public, much like the Tesla agreement. Every part that can be made public will be made public.</text>
        <text id="2017092773ae79b319cd451890000497">All I am simply saying is that the consortium that have bought our Lands Titles Office for 40 years may also be interested in purchasing other Australian states' commercialisation arms of their lands titles units, and they may, quite rightly, have said that they want some of their financing and some of the agreements under the contract kept private, or their competitors may get line of sight into the way they bid while they are bidding for other lands titles.</text>
        <text id="2017092773ae79b319cd451890000498">But any aspect that interacts with South Australians or the public has been made public—of course, we insisted on that. What the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is attempting to do is to find a quarrel within the house that somehow we are keeping things secret: we are not. We are making every aspect of the commercialisation of the Lands Titles Office that impacts on South Australians public.</text>
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