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  <date date="2021-09-21" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Members, Accommodation Allowances</name>
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        <heading>Members, Accommodation Allowances</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-09-21">
            <name>Members, Accommodation Allowances</name>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (14:06):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Did the Hon. Terry Stephens MLC claim from the country members' accommodation allowance using a different address from the one he declared to the South Australian Electoral Commission as his principal place of residence on his nomination for election to the Legislative Council in 2018? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.</text>
        <text id="202109218e7a526de5d84fdeb0000396">Leave granted.</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>  Mr Stephens told parliament he had been living in Victor Harbor since 2011. From May 2017, Mr Stephens had declared to the parliament that his address that entitled him to claim from the country members' allowance was unit 10, 2-5 Flinders Parade, Victor Harbor. However, on his nomination form to the Electoral Commission of South Australia for the 2018 state election the Hon. Terry Stephens MLC declared a different address.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:07):</by>  Sir, as you would be more than aware, I don't have any details regarding that. That is the country members' allowance, which goes to the parliament not to the Premier.</text>
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