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  <date date="2017-10-17" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Energy Prices</name>
      <text id="201710175c36e16a74f6490f90000642">
        <heading>Energy Prices</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4342" kind="question">
        <name>Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Stuart</electorate>
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          <question date="2017-10-17">
            <name>Energy Prices</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-10-17T14:45:57" />
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          <by role="member" id="4342">Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart) (14:45):</by>  Supplementary: given the minister's reference to the ACCC draft report released yesterday and his comments about privatisation, does he agree with the ACCC, which said that the distribution businesses in Victoria and South Australia, both of which have been privatised, are the most efficient in the country and more efficient than the government-run ones in other states?</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="2017-10-17">
            <name>Energy Prices</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-10-17T14:46:23" />
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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) (14:46):</by>  My point to the shadow minister is: haven't you done enough damage? The deer in the spotlight.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201710175c36e16a74f6490f90000645">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The Treasurer is warned for the second time for debating.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4342">
        <name>Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4342">Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN:</by>  Point of order, sir: if the Treasurer doesn't have an answer to the question, he should just stay quiet.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201710175c36e16a74f6490f90000647">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Stuart is called to order, warned and warned a second time and should have been—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4339">Mr Whetstone interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Chaffey is also called to order, warned and warned a second time for dissenting from the Speaker's ruling. One thing I have tried to crack down on in this chamber, to make it more orderly and better for the people of South Australia, is bogus, student politician-type points of order, such as the member for Stuart just took. He is on the edge. Member for Giles.</text>
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