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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-06-06" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Business Confidence</name>
      <text id="20180606e55e92e524da435fa0000205">
        <heading>Business Confidence</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5244" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.E. HANSON</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2018-06-06">
            <name>Business Confidence</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-06-06T15:08:33" />
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          <by role="member" id="5244">The Hon. J.E. HANSON (15:08):</by>  A further supplementary arising out of that answer: can the minister please outline how many points behind the national competence index South Australia remains?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Trade</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2018-06-06">
            <name>Business Confidence</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-06-06T15:08:52" />
        <text id="20180606e55e92e524da435fa0000208">
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (15:08):</by>  I don't quite know what they are on about, Mr President. They interject, they ask strange questions—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180606e55e92e524da435fa0000210">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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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>  The member opposite is quoting figures. All I know is that in the life of the Weatherill government, this is now the highest we've seen since any time in the Weatherill government. It is an endorsement of the Marshall Liberal government's policies for us in South Australia. We are coming off a pretty low base, a pretty dark period in our history. There is confidence and I am excited about the confidence; I want to see South Australia grow, not like the members opposite.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20180606e55e92e524da435fa0000213">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I am giving you one last supplementary, Hon. Mr Hanson.</text>
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