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  <date date="2023-11-28T11:00:00+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>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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          <heading>Auditor-General's Report</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5384" referenceid="facf38f4c95b4f27b86257b48e3f699a" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr PATTERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2023-11-28T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
          </question>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5384" referenceid="facf38f4c95b4f27b86257b48e3f699a">Mr PATTERSON (Morphett)</by> (1 November 2023).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" referenceid="aa45c8bc1b33484c8becbf1c17397e74" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Defence and Space Industries</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Climate, Environment and Water</name>
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          <question date="2023-11-28T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4622" referenceid="aa45c8bc1b33484c8becbf1c17397e74">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Minister for Defence and Space Industries, Minister for Climate, Environment and Water):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Below a breakdown programs/projects and changes in expenditure and milestone profiles:</inserted>
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                <cell>Project</cell>
                <cell>Original Budget ($)</cell>
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                <cell>Variance ($)</cell>
                <cell>Comment</cell>
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                <cell>Defence Jobs Attraction Campaign</cell>
                <cell>-</cell>
                <cell>177,385</cell>
                <cell>(177,385)</cell>
                <cell>Timing of grant programs and provision of scholarships delayed expenditure, funding carried over from 2021-22 in revised 2022-23 Budget.</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>SASAT-1 ( Kanyini)</cell>
                <cell>474,000</cell>
                <cell>1,477,100</cell>
                <cell>(1,003,100)</cell>
                <cell>Budget carried over from 2021-22 to fund project, in revised 2022-23 Budget.</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Submarine Task Force</cell>
                <cell>300,412</cell>
                <cell>556,950</cell>
                <cell>(256,538)</cell>
                <cell>Funding carried over from 2021-22 in revised 2022-23 Budget.</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>DSA Operations</cell>
                <cell>2,501,588</cell>
                <cell>2,506,565</cell>
                <cell>(4,977)</cell>
                <cell>Minor movements</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Total</cell>
                <cell>3,276,000</cell>
                <cell>4,718,000</cell>
                <cell>(1,442,000)</cell>
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          <inserted>Kanyni is currently planned for a mid-2024 launch into low Earth orbit.</inserted>
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