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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Gawler Line Electrification</name>
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        <heading>Gawler Line Electrification</heading>
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        <name>Mr TARZIA</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hartley</electorate>
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          <question date="2022-05-05">
            <name>Gawler Line Electrification</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-05-05T15:17:49" />
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          <by role="member" id="4840">Mr TARZIA (Hartley) (15:17):</by>  Supplementary: can the minister confirm that—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="3117">The Hon. L.W.K. Bignell 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 Mawson is called to order.</text>
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        <name>Mr TARZIA</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4840">Mr TARZIA:</by>  —the Gawler project will be finished by 30 June?</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 Infrastructure and Transport</name>
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            <name>Minister for Energy and Mining</name>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Energy and Mining) (15:17):</by>  I say operational but with passengers on board. That is the advice I have now. If that changes, I will come back to the house, but I have said to the department that I want to give the public a time line that would not change and that they need some certainty. They are sick and tired of being on buses. For whatever reason—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="3124">Mr Pisoni 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 Unley! The minister has the call.</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>  —the former government didn't give people free substitute buses in the northern suburbs. It probably says a lot about what they think about people in the northern suburbs. Once it was clear that there would be further delays, the Premier insisted that those substitute buses be free and they are.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members 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>  Order! The Government Whip is called to order.</text>
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