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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2014-12-02" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Water Pricing</name>
      <text id="2014120201ee6172dd4e4bf1a0000221">
        <heading>Water Pricing</heading>
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      <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="2014-12-02">
            <name>Water Pricing</name>
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        <startTime time="2014-12-02T15:30:38" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (15:30):</by>  Is it not true that by deliberately inflating demand to 190 gigalitres, the government deliberately manipulated water prices prior to the election and has set them on a trajectory of being increased for the next 50 years, as has been stated by the former chief of ESCOSA?</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="2014-12-02">
            <name>Water Pricing</name>
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        <startTime time="2014-12-02T15:30:58" />
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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) (15:30):</by>  My understanding and recollection, without having notes in front of me, was that the government set a projected usage of 190 gigalitres and after 12 months the usage was, in fact, about 191 gigalitres—of that order. So, the government actually got the projection right.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="2014120201ee6172dd4e4bf1a0000224">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Supplementary.</text>
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