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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Premier's Expenditure</name>
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        <heading>Premier's Expenditure</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Black</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Premier's Expenditure</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4837" referenceid="40abd06ec15a40b1995c1130588dc41e">The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Leader of the Opposition) (15:18):</by>  Supplementary, Mr Speaker, and my supplementary is to the Premier. Apart from Chris Minns, Labor Party staff and volunteers, who did the Premier meet with on his trip to Sydney?</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! I must observe for the moment—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order, members to my left—that that question, in fact, assumes a number of matters that may not be correct.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Croydon</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf">The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (15:18):</by>  I met with a number of business leaders in the state of New South Wales. I might just take this opportunity to add that I think South Australian taxpayers arguably got a lot more value out of that exercise that I undertook in Sydney than what they might have got out of $582.82 that the opposition leader charged to taxpayers for car rental in London recently. So I think that it's a perfectly legitimate—</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! Member for Florey! Member for West Torrens! Member for Morialta! Member for Chaffey! The Premier has the call.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Croydon</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf">The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  So, of course, travel is an important part of the leaders of governments job—both myself and the executive—</text>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Croydon</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf">The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  —and we will always to undertake it in accordance with—</text>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order, member for Colton!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Croydon</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf">The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  —fairness to taxpayers.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! Members to my left, one of your colleagues—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5384" referenceid="facf38f4c95b4f27b86257b48e3f699a">Mr Patterson interjecting:</event>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Member for Morphett, your colleague is seeking the call and yet there are interjections.</text>
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        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! My concern in relation to the supplementary question, to return to that point, is that it runs the risk of being argumentative. Member for Heysen.</text>
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