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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2013-11-26" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Murray-Darling Basin</name>
      <text id="20131126eaab6fdda6fd465780000757">
        <heading>MURRAY-DARLING BASIN</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2013-11-26">
            <name>MURRAY-DARLING BASIN</name>
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        <startTime time="2013-11-26T15:21:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (15:21):</by>  I have a further supplementary. Well, what was the source of '4,000 gigalitres and not a drop less'?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2013-11-26">
            <name>MURRAY-DARLING BASIN</name>
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        <startTime time="2013-11-26T15:21:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (15:21):</by>  This mob just doesn't get it. On one hand, we have them in here today calling for us to activate the desalination plant, yet they don't say what that means to ordinary SA Water customers. What it means is that they want to activate the desalination plant to charge people more for water. That's the Liberal Party plan: they want to charge South Australians more for water while, at the same time, they want to let New South Wales taxpayers off the hook.</text>
        <text id="20131126eaab6fdda6fd465780000760">They want South Australian taxpayers to pay their way, that's what these people would do. God help us all if they ever get their hands on the treasury bench! We will need every bit of assistance because these people have no idea about science. Federally, they are sacking science ministers, they are sacking climate councils. They are sacking anybody who would give them information to inform public policy because that's not what they do: they just make it up.</text>
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