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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Coober Pedy Housing</name>
      <text id="20211201a9c906fac8d4498db0000133">
        <heading>Coober Pedy Housing</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2021-12-01">
            <name>Coober Pedy Housing</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-12-01T14:42:20" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:42):</by>  Supplementary arising from the answer: minister, can you name one single thing that you have done as minister for the unique circumstances and challenges faced by people in Coober Pedy at the moment?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Human Services</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2021-12-01">
            <name>Coober Pedy Housing</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-12-01T14:42:35" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:42):</by>  We have a range of programs that operate statewide.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20211201a9c906fac8d4498db0000137">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:  Order!</by> The leader has asked his question.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  I can go and find out from my agencies which—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20211201a9c906fac8d4498db0000140">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:  Order!</by>
        </text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20211201a9c906fac8d4498db0000141">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —NGOs have coverage of Coober Pedy—</text>
        <text id="20211201a9c906fac8d4498db0000142">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20211201a9c906fac8d4498db0000143">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The leader is out of order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20211201a9c906fac8d4498db0000144">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —and if he is interested, we can go and get them to estimate exactly how much they might have spent in emergency relief or food programs or the like, or any of the grants that we provided during COVID, just to reassure him that, because Coober Pedy is part of South Australia, they were able to benefit from the same programs that have been running statewide.</text>
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