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  <date date="2012-03-13" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Free-Range Eggs</name>
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        <heading>FREE-RANGE EGGS</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4363" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2012-03-13">
            <name>FREE-RANGE EGGS</name>
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        <startTime time="2012-03-13T15:14:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="4363">The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:14):</by>  Arising from the answer: does the minister have concerns that, say, if another state was to go ahead with an increased animal welfare consideration with their definition of free-range eggs, consumers might actually choose to buy that state's eggs, rather than South Australian free-range eggs?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women</electorate>
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          <question date="2012-03-13">
            <name>FREE-RANGE EGGS</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women) (15:14): </by> Consumers, indeed, do vote with their feet, or their pockets, and I think that would be a very compelling market dynamic that would help shift the South Australian industry and cause them to rethink about where they should position themselves in the market. They are the very pressures that I think are the most important to come into play. I can absolutely reassure the honourable member that we would see changes to our standards overnight if that were the case.</text>
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