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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2016-04-12" />
  <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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  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="3639" />
  <endPage num="3696" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000908">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Greyhound Racing</name>
      <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000909">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Greyhound Racing</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-10-14" qonNum="9">
            <name>Greyhound Racing</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000910">
          <inserted>9 <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK </by>(14 October 2015).  Can the Minister for Racing advise—</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000911">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;For each of the months from October 2014 to September 2015—</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000912">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;How many swab tests have been conducted on greyhounds by GRSA; and</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000913">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;How many were positive and how many were negative?</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000914">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;What drugs were tested for between October 2014 and September 2015?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000915">
          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;What drugs were detected and how many times between October 2014 and September 2015?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000916">
          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;When was the last box draw audit conducted in South Australia and what were the results?</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="2015-10-14" qonNum="9">
            <name>Greyhound Racing</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000917">
          <inserted>
            <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>  The Minister for Racing has provided this advice:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000918">
          <inserted>1-4.&amp;#x9;Greyhound Racing SA is the controlling authority for greyhound racing in South Australia. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000919">
          <inserted>Greyhound Racing SA is responsible for encouraging, promoting and conducting Greyhound Racing in South Australia and also provides industry control and direction, which includes undertaking integrity functions, such as swabbing and drug testing of greyhounds.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000920">
          <inserted>Since the corporatisation of the racing industry by the former Liberal state government in 2000, the state government does not control or intervene in the management of the industry.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20160412a932fe705f004aea90000921">
          <inserted>Any questions regarding the number and outcomes of tests conducted will need to be obtained from the controlling authority, Greyhound Racing SA.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
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