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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Algal Bloom</name>
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        <heading>Algal Bloom</heading>
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        <name>Mr PATTERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-09-02T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Algal Bloom</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5384" referenceid="facf38f4c95b4f27b86257b48e3f699a" uid="cc81761bd8094f3ebe145320b2320ee7">Mr PATTERSON (Morphett) (14:55):</by>  My question is to the Premier. What advice or reassurances has the government provided to Surfing Australia regarding their Australian Boardriders Battle event scheduled to take place on the Fleurieu Peninsula on 18 October 2025? </text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf" uid="4f29b10d722e48abbf6c4ae4547ba77c" 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>Algal Bloom</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf" uid="4f29b10d722e48abbf6c4ae4547ba77c">The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:56):</by>  I want to make sure I give the member for Morphett an accurate answer to his question. Is that the same event, the junior event—</text>
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        <name>Mr PATTERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="5384" referenceid="facf38f4c95b4f27b86257b48e3f699a" uid="79eb4aef2bfa4eba8ea3290d345f332d">Mr PATTERSON:</by>  No.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf" uid="22d98f5318864b9caae664c33033e42f" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <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" uid="22d98f5318864b9caae664c33033e42f">The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  A different one again? The advice, as I referred to earlier, that we are providing to event organisers in any coastal context will be consistent. I am happy to make clear and repeat our willingness to make available any official advice and access to public health officials to appropriately ascertain, from their perspective, any information they require to be able to make decisions going forward.</text>
        <text id="20250902c416c4e2470c4251b0000442">Obviously we have a dynamic situation; it is evolving, and people want access to information. We can't provide definitive advice where we don't have it, we can't make up science that doesn't exist, we can't operate on conjecture and conspiracy. We can only offer information based on what we have got available to us at the time. We will continue to do that with any event, whether it be the one that the member for Morphett has mentioned or any other event that will potentially be affected by the algal bloom.</text>
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