<!--The Official Report of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia are covered by parliamentary privilege. Republication by others is not afforded the same protection and may result in exposure to legal liability if the material is defamatory. You may copy and make use of excerpts of proceedings where (1) you attribute the Parliament as the source, (2) you assume the risk of liability if the manner of your use is defamatory, (3) you do not use the material for the purpose of advertising, satire or ridicule, or to misrepresent members of Parliament, and (4) your use of the extracts is fair, accurate and not misleading. Copyright in the Official Report of Parliamentary Debates is held by the Attorney-General of South Australia.-->
<hansard id="" tocId="" xml:lang="EN-AU" schemaVersion="4.0" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="hansard_1_0.xsd" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2023-03-08T10:30:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>House of Assembly</house>
  <venue></venue>
  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="3229" />
  <endPage num="3304" />
  <dateModified time="2023-07-06T08:56:08+09:30" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>HomeBuilder Program</name>
      <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000505">
        <heading>HomeBuilder Program</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="5377" referenceid="84fdb62c8e6644ce93a7ff01f8e92c3d" kind="question">
        <name>Mr COWDREY</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Colton</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2023-03-08T00:00:00+10:30">
            <name>HomeBuilder Program</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2023-03-08T14:39:37+10:30" />
        <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000506">
          <timeStamp time="2023-03-08T14:39:37+10:30" />
          <by role="member" id="5377" referenceid="84fdb62c8e6644ce93a7ff01f8e92c3d">Mr COWDREY (Colton) (14:39):</by>  My question is again to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer direct RevenueSA to review their decision regarding Jesamine, Jason and their young family from Flagstaff Hill and, if not, why not? With your leave, and that of the house, I will explain.</text>
        <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000507">Leave granted.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5377" referenceid="84fdb62c8e6644ce93a7ff01f8e92c3d" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>Mr COWDREY</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Colton</electorate>
        <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000508">
          <by role="member" id="5377" referenceid="84fdb62c8e6644ce93a7ff01f8e92c3d">Mr COWDREY:</by>  Jesamine, Jason and their young family purchased a property a few years earlier than planned because of the HomeBuilder grant, but recently they received a letter from RevenueSA advising that they have been rejected from accessing HomeBuilder because their build had not commenced within 18 months, even though they had provided the required statutory declaration within 18 months, complete with photographic evidence of their block, confirming that their build had in fact commenced?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4842" referenceid="78a22826e43d4639bdfa63b5f3ef73f9" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Lee</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Treasurer</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <startTime time="2023-03-08T14:40:26+10:30" />
        <page num="3266" />
        <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000509">
          <timeStamp time="2023-03-08T14:40:26+10:30" />
          <by role="member" id="4842" referenceid="78a22826e43d4639bdfa63b5f3ef73f9">The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Treasurer) (14:40):</by>  In short, I won't be directing RevenueSA to do anything on the basis of a question that the member for Colton has asked me in this place, because, as I mentioned in response to his first question, the member for Colton unfortunately hasn't furnished me with any information about any of the people that he supposes to advocate for. But if there is a situation that the member for Colton—</text>
        <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000510">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000511">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! The member for Morialta can depart the chamber under 137A for the remainder of question time. He has been for some time on his final warning.</text>
        <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000512">
          <event>The honourable member for Morialta having withdrawn from the chamber:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4842" referenceid="78a22826e43d4639bdfa63b5f3ef73f9" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Lee</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Treasurer</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <text id="2023030821c600a869304e62a0000513">
          <by role="member" id="4842" referenceid="78a22826e43d4639bdfa63b5f3ef73f9">The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN:</by>  However, if there are particulars that the member for Colton might bring himself to furnish to me, in that circumstance where it appears on the face of it that they have satisfied all of the criteria of the HomeBuilder scheme, then of course RevenueSA should be encouraged to look at that. But as I have said, if the member for Colton is reluctant to correspond with me and advocate directly on behalf of his constituents and, instead, conduct it through the media, I don't have the opportunity to do that.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
</hansard>