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The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS (14:30): Treasurer, can you inform the chamber how many people from other regional towns in South Australia have written to you begging you to impose these draconian regulations on their communities?

Members interjecting:

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (14:31): I will be very short: none, because the rest of country South Australia already has 24 hours a day trading, 365 days a year.

The Hon. T.J. Stephens interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Hon. Mr Stephens is out of order.

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: If you go to Mount Gambier, if you go to Whyalla, if you go to—

The PRESIDENT: And he knows better than to be—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: —Victor Harbor the traders can trade if they want to Christmas Day, Good Friday, ANZAC morning. Even our proposal is not going to allow that sort of deregulation. That is what happens in country South Australia.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!