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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2015-09-08" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Public Service Short-Term Contracts, Trainees and Graduates</name>
      <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000828">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Public Service Short-Term Contracts, Trainees and Graduates</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2014-12-03" qonNum="83">
            <name>Public Service Short-Term Contracts, Trainees and Graduates</name>
          </question>
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        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000829">
          <inserted>83 <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS </by>(3 December 2014).  (First Session)  As at 30 June 2014, for each department or agency then reporting to the Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion—</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000830">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;What were the number of people on short-term contracts (and also the FTE number)?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000831">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;What were the number of trainees and graduates?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <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 Climate Change</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2014-12-03" qonNum="83">
            <name>Public Service Short-Term Contracts, Trainees and Graduates</name>
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        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000832">
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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 Climate Change):</by>
          </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000833">
          <inserted>The South Australian Public Sector Workforce Information Summary Report provides information about the structure, size and composition of the SA public sector workforce. Information is published annually on the Office for the Public Sector website (http://publicsector.sa.gov.au/). Workforce data for 2015 will be published towards the end of the year.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000834">
          <inserted>In addition, on behalf of all ministers, attached are two reports as at 30 June 2014 detailing:</inserted>
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        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000835">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;The number of short-term contracts by agency, and</inserted>
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        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000836">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;The number of trainees and graduates by agency.</inserted>
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        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000837">
          <inserted>
            <term>[See tables in reply to question 72]</term>
          </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20150908c3ee9c2680b6494190000838">
          <inserted>This information has been provided from workforce data collected by the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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