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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Executive Positions</name>
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          <heading>Executive Positions</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr TELFER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Flinders</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Executive Positions</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-09-17T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="6888" referenceid="1b23b655d40349f8a472b7b9eeba16df" uid="fdd63fd113cb4b43ad52aa677d5fd4c5">Mr TELFER (Flinders)  </by>(25 June 2025).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Taylor</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Housing and Urban Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Housing Infrastructure</name>
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            <name>Minister for Planning</name>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Executive Positions</name>
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            <by role="member" id="6889" referenceid="020b6db900d1457ebfe4919753f9c64a" uid="d4a426e7859c48c993e5032fb9583a8c">The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning):</by>  I have been advised that for the SA Water:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Section 17 of the South Australian Water Corporation Act 1994 allows the corporation to appoint the employees it thinks necessary or desirable and on terms and conditions fixed by the corporation. Given this, SA Water uses its own industrial framework for employing staff and no positions at SA Water fall within the SA executive service.</inserted>
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          <inserted>SA Water's executive structure comprises its chief executive, its chief financial officer, chief information officer and six general managers.</inserted>
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          <inserted>No executive positions have been terminated since 1 July 2024.</inserted>
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