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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Small Business</name>
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        <heading>Small Business</heading>
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        <name>Mr TELFER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Flinders</electorate>
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          <question date="2024-11-26T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Small Business</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6888" referenceid="1b23b655d40349f8a472b7b9eeba16df">Mr TELFER (Flinders) (15:21):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Have business failures hit their highest level since the COVID pandemic? If so, what is the Minister for Small Business doing about it?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. A. MICHAELS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Enfield</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Small and Family Business</name>
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            <name>Minister for Consumer and Business Affairs</name>
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            <name>Minister for Arts</name>
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          <question date="2024-11-26T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Small Business</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5572" referenceid="8d5fbcb4f22e401a94a6418aed69abc2">The Hon. A. MICHAELS (Enfield—Minister for Small and Family Business, Minister for Consumer and Business Affairs, Minister for Arts) (15:21):</by>  Could the member repeat the question. I didn't quite hear it.</text>
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        <name>Mr TELFER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Flinders</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="6888" referenceid="1b23b655d40349f8a472b7b9eeba16df">Mr TELFER:</by>  Sorry, your colleague was being obtrusive.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Member for Flinders, I think that may have been the fault of the Minister for Trade, who is on his final warning. No yelling out.</text>
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