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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>SA Water Infrastructure</name>
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        <heading>SA Water Infrastructure</heading>
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        <name>Mr TELFER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Flinders</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-03-18T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>SA Water Infrastructure</name>
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        <startTime time="2025-03-18T14:32:48+10:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="6888" referenceid="1b23b655d40349f8a472b7b9eeba16df" uid="1c44406b5a3c47d79f265dbe0597e03a">Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:32):</by>  My question is to the Premier. How many housing developments in South Australia are currently delayed or have failed to commence construction due to a lack of SA Water infrastructure?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf" uid="87e988d104ad425a8ce78abe95baed3b" kind="answer">
        <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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            <name>SA Water Infrastructure</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf" uid="87e988d104ad425a8ce78abe95baed3b">The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:33):</by>  As a government, we are determined to make sure that we are putting in the policy efforts which we can control. That is our focus. The government on occasion will draw, compare and contrast to what the former government has done and what it hasn't done and so forth. There were good things the former government did that we welcome and there are bad things the former government did, which obviously we will point to at times.</text>
        <text id="202503180b06380bf3614ea8a0000408">We are not only a government that invests all of our effort, all of our energy, in trying to come up with metrics to highlight all of the failures of the former government, particularly when it comes underinvestment in water. We have actually tried to focus more on how we are going to solve the problem than identifying all the projects that you held back when you were running around telling South Australians how great lower water prices were while at the same time you were cutting the investment that was required in water infrastructure. If the shadow minister wants me to take on notice and get him a list of all the projects that you stopped by underinvesting in water, we can certainly undertake to go away and do that work for you.</text>
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