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  <date date="2025-09-16T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Grant Programs</name>
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          <heading>Grant Programs</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr WHETSTONE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Chaffey</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Grant Programs</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-09-17T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="4339" referenceid="578eb1a82ef14e8ab4261939b72f9549" uid="618f70a00fee43a5ae051ca8560d1a6f">Mr WHETSTONE (Chaffey)  </by>(19 June 2025).  (Estimates Committee A)</inserted>
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        <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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          <question date="2025-09-16T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Grant Programs</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5084" referenceid="5e4189c3f09746759e26a644a9e66bcf" uid="b98e9a99226441b08f4809b489c4cdff">The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The following table provides the requested information on grant program/funds under my responsibility for the 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 financial years—Controlled:</inserted>
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                <cell>Grant program/fund name </cell>
                <cell>Purpose of grant program/fund </cell>
                <cell>2025-26 Estimate $000</cell>
                <cell>2026-27 Estimate $000</cell>
                <cell>2027-28 Estimate $000</cell>
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                <cell>Business Events Bid Fund</cell>
                <cell>The Business Events Bid Fund was established with the purpose to attract more international and domestic business events to South Australia.</cell>
                <cell>8,440</cell>
                <cell>8,450</cell>
                <cell>7,617</cell>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0000775">
          <inserted>The following table provides details, including the value and beneficiary, or any commitments already made to be funded from the program or funds mentioned in the previous answer.</inserted>
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                <cell>Grant program/ fund name</cell>
                <cell>Beneficiary/ Recipient</cell>
                <cell>Purpose</cell>
                <cell>Value$</cell>
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                <cell>Business Events Bid Fund</cell>
                <cell>Adelaide Convention Centre (Adelaide Venue Management Ltd)</cell>
                <cell>Conferences to be held</cell>
                <cell>2,827,500</cell>
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                <cell>Business Events Bid Fund</cell>
                <cell>Business Events Adelaide Ltd</cell>
                <cell>Conferences to be held</cell>
                <cell>5,563,500</cell>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0000778">
          <inserted>The following table provides the requested information on grant program/funds under my responsibility for the 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28 financial years—Administered:</inserted>
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                <cell>Grant program/fund name </cell>
                <cell>Purpose of grant program/fund </cell>
                <cell>2025-26 Estimate $000</cell>
                <cell>2026-27 Estimate $000</cell>
                <cell>2027-28 Estimate $000</cell>
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                <cell>Promotion of the State</cell>
                <cell>A non-competitive grant fund available to support government and non-government organisations in activities that promote the economic, social and cultural aspects of the state.</cell>
                <cell>1,902</cell>
                <cell>1,950</cell>
                <cell>1,999</cell>
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        <text id="20250916f1bf3590a4794e4ca0000781">
          <inserted>The following table provides details, including the value and beneficiary, or any commitments already made to be funded from the program or funds mentioned in the previous answer.</inserted>
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              <rowtitle>
                <cell>Grant program/ fund name</cell>
                <cell>Beneficiary/Recipient</cell>
                <cell>Purpose</cell>
                <cell>Value$</cell>
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                <cell>Promotion of the State</cell>
                <cell>South Australian Sports Federation Incorporated</cell>
                <cell>Support for the Annual South Australian Sport Hall of Fame Event—2024 to 2026</cell>
                <cell>79,517</cell>
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