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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2016-02-10" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Goods and Services Tax</name>
      <text id="2016021059002eeb52524295a0000242">
        <heading>Goods and Services Tax</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Leader of the Opposition</electorate>
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          <question date="2016-02-10">
            <name>Goods and Services Tax</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-02-10T15:00:55" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (15:00):</by>  Further supplementary.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="2016021059002eeb52524295a0000244">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You can have a further supplementary, but I expect a little bit of decorum on this side of the bench. You are asking this question; let him answer it in silence. Go ahead.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY:</by>  Do you support the Premier's policy of increasing the GST to 15 per cent—a very simple question, Mr President.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety</electorate>
        <startTime time="2016-02-10T15:01:15" />
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          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (15:01):</by>  A very simple question that has a very simple answer. I support having a premier of this state who takes on the challenges that are brought before him. I support having a premier who wants to make sure that health and education funding in this state stack up.</text>
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