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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2015-12-09" />
  <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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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Business Transformation Voucher Program</name>
      <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000466">
        <heading>Business Transformation Voucher Program</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4866" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-12-09">
            <name>Business Transformation Voucher Program</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2015-12-09T14:47:51" />
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000467">
          <timeStamp time="2015-12-09T14:47:51" />
          <by role="member" id="4866">The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN (14:47):</by>  With this Father Christmas activity of giving away money, how does the minister know that the moneys are acquitted in accordance with the application?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-12-09">
            <name>Business Transformation Voucher Program</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2015-12-09T14:48:01" />
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000468">
          <timeStamp time="2015-12-09T14:48:01" />
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (14:48):</by>  I thank the honourable member for his very perceptive supplementary and his demonstrated leadership qualities that he is showing us all again on display here.</text>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000469">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000470">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  We see the tryout for the leader of the opposition. We hear the rumours about the leadership rumblings in the lower house.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="2707" />
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000471">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The honourable minister, can we—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000472">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  I wouldn't be too worried about that. I would be worried about up in this chamber.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000473">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The honourable minister—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000474">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  We have some very good backbenchers who are trying—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000475">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Honourable minister, take your seat. It is totally unacceptable to see this rabble in front of me. The Hon. Mr Maher, you are a minister and you should uphold a certain amount of decorum. The opposition should—</text>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000476">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1819">The Hon. T.J. Stephens interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000477">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Stephens, we don't need any contribution from you. Have you finished your answer?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000478">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  I am not sure actually. It was in relation to—</text>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000479">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000480">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  With the rude interjections and the tryouts from the backbench, I had almost forgotten the question.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>An honourable member</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000481">
          <by role="office">An honourable member:</by>  It was about the leadership.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000482">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  Yes, it was about the leadership. Certainly, the department have funding agreements with—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000483">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Address the Chair.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000484">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  —milestones in them to make sure the money is being—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000485">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The honourable minister will address the Chair.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000486">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  —used for the purposes to which it was expended.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201512094d6315653756460e90000487">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Ms Vincent—I hope you treat the Hon. Ms Vincent a little bit better than you have treated the Hon. Mr Maher.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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