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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-10-18T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Building Better Regions Fund</name>
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      <text id="20221018ba04adf5c00845c590000186">
        <heading>Building Better Regions Fund</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2022-10-18T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Building Better Regions Fund</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-10-18T14:45:56+10:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:45):</by>  Supplementary: if the minister believes that it is so important to her and to South Australia, which I agree, why hasn't she formally written to her federal ministerial colleagues?</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>
        <text id="20221018ba04adf5c00845c590000189">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Everybody finished? Call the minister.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3125" referenceid="efd27e5356cf43dab26d7594810cb8b0" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. Wortley</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20221018ba04adf5c00845c590000190">
          <by role="member" id="3125" referenceid="efd27e5356cf43dab26d7594810cb8b0">The Hon. R.P. Wortley:</by>  Disgraceful. How you live with yourselves, I don't know.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20221018ba04adf5c00845c590000191">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Wortley, I don't know how we live with you. Now stop it!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-10-18T14:46:40+10:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:46):</by>  We know that those opposite don't know what it means to work as a team. We know that they don't actually pick up the phone and speak to each other, or they don't even sometimes go around to offices in the same building and speak to each other. I'm very glad to say that on the Labor side we have a number of opportunities to advocate—</text>
        <text id="20221018ba04adf5c00845c590000193">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. Centofanti 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!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  —and it is something that I take very seriously.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. Centofanti interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The honourable leader, let the minister give her answer, please.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  I also don't accept the premise of the question, given that I have written to several federal colleagues about this matter.</text>
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