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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-06-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Road Toll Forum Outcomes</name>
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          <heading>Road Toll Forum Outcomes</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="3404" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.A. DARLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2019-06-18">
            <name>Road Toll Forum Outcomes</name>
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        <text id="20190618320ca184b74d4576a0001386">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="3404">the Hon. J.A. DARLEY </by>(4 June 2019).  </inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-06-18">
            <name>Road Toll Forum Outcomes</name>
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        <text id="20190618320ca184b74d4576a0001387">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  The Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services has advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="20190618320ca184b74d4576a0001388">
          <inserted>The meeting brought together key industry stakeholders, including industry experts, to address road safety in South Australia. Topics of discussion during the forum included regional fatalities and penalties and enforcement.</inserted>
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        <text id="20190618320ca184b74d4576a0001389">
          <inserted>Attendees of the forum were pleased to hear that the state government had secured more than $2 billion in federal government funding in the federal budget to fix South Australia's regional roads. Further to this, the Marshall Liberal government has just announced that it will be injecting more than $1 billion to address the state's regional roads which were left neglected by the previous government.</inserted>
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        <text id="20190618320ca184b74d4576a0001390">
          <inserted>Penalties and enforcement were raised as an important strategy to tackle high-range speeding offences and other reckless behaviour on South Australian roads.</inserted>
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        <text id="20190618320ca184b74d4576a0001391">
          <inserted>Speeding fines act as a deterrent to speeding and that's why the Marshall Liberal government recently announced that it will come down harder on high-range speeding offenders and reckless driving behaviour by increasing fines for those who thumb their nose at the road laws.</inserted>
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