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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2015-07-02" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Regional Employment</name>
      <text id="201507028d3ae0d7d4bd43b180000252">
        <heading>Regional Employment</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="2015-07-02">
            <name>Regional Employment</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-07-02T15:17:43" />
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          <timeStamp time="2015-07-02T15:17:43" />
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (15:17):</by>  I have a supplementary question. The minister might want to take this on notice: will she cite the resources that she uses to claim that there are 21,000 more jobs in regional South Australia since the government came to office?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-07-02">
            <name>Regional Employment</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-07-02T15:18:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (15:18):</by>  I am advised that there are more than 21,000 additional people in jobs in regional South Australia than when this government came to power, and that is from March 2002 to May 2015, and that would be ABS data.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Ridgway has a supplementary.</text>
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