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      <name>Ministerial Staff Travel</name>
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          <heading>Ministerial Staff Travel</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4623" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Ramsay</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-09-05" qonNum="338">
            <name>Ministerial Staff Travel</name>
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          <inserted>338 <by role="member" id="4623">The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay)</by> (5 September 2018).  Did a departmental staff member or ministerial adviser travel with Minister Pisoni to Perth for his one day trip to attend COAG, that cost more than $3,500?</inserted>
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          <inserted>If so—</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;Where is this reported?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;Did they travel economy or business class?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.G. PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Unley</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Industry and Skills</name>
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          <question date="2018-09-05" qonNum="338">
            <name>Ministerial Staff Travel</name>
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            <by role="member" id="3124">The Hon. D.G. PISONI (Unley—Minister for Industry and Skills):</by>  The minister attended the COAG Industry and Skills meeting in Perth in April, as detailed in the publicly available Proactive Disclosure statement (19-20 April). The lowest logical fare was booked a week prior to accommodate the minister's schedule, including a separate meeting with federal minister Michaelia Cash MP to discuss South Australia's involvement in the Skilling Australians Fund – in which the state government successfully secured $102.6 million in funding, and the First-Employee pilot program.</inserted>
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          <inserted>A representative from the Department for Industry and Skills also attended the COAG in Perth.</inserted>
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