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  <date date="2021-03-17" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Feral Deer Aerial Shooting</name>
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          <heading>Feral Deer Aerial Shooting</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="question">
        <name>Dr CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2021-02-05" qonNum="402">
            <name>Feral Deer Aerial Shooting</name>
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          <inserted>402 <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition)</by> (5 February 2021).  When will feral deer aerial shooting take place in 2021, and has there been a reduction in the number of shoots from previous years? </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4837" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Black</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Environment and Water</name>
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          <question date="2021-02-05" qonNum="402">
            <name>Feral Deer Aerial Shooting</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4837">The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Minister for Environment and Water):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Aerial shooting operations specifically targeting feral deer control typically occur in the Limestone Coast region (SE). </inserted>
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          <inserted>There are two scheduled aerial shoots to occur in May and September of 2021, targeting feral deer in the SE. In 2020, three deer-focused aerial shoots were undertaken in the Limestone Coast. The operational time allocated for the two scheduled shoots in 2021 is equivalent to the three shoots undertaken during 2020. This will result in the 2021 program being delivered more efficiently, without compromising on-ground outcomes.</inserted>
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