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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-05-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Shop Trading Hours</name>
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        <heading>Shop Trading Hours</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1819" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-05-12">
            <name>Shop Trading Hours</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-05-12T14:30:44" />
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          <by role="member" id="1819">The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS (14:30):</by>  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?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-05-12">
            <name>Shop Trading Hours</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-05-12T14:31:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer) (14:31):</by>  I will be very short: none, because the rest of country South Australia already has 24 hours a day trading, 365 days a year.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1819">The Hon. T.J. Stephens interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The Hon. Mr Stephens is out of order.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS:</by>  If you go to Mount Gambier, if you go to Whyalla, if you go to—</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  And he knows better than to be—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS:</by>  —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.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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