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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>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>South East Drainage Network</name>
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          <heading>South East Drainage Network</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" qonNum="104">
            <name>South East Drainage Network</name>
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          <inserted>104 <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) </by>().7 September 20227 September 2022).  Can the Minister for Climate, Environment and Water advise—</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Which agency has responsibility for investigating the options for diverting water flow from the drainage network in the South-East away from the sea and retaining it in the landscape? </inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;What is the expected total cost of this investigation? </inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;What funding has been allocated in the 2022-23 state budget for this investigation? </inserted>
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          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;Who will be conducting the investigation? </inserted>
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          <inserted>5.&amp;#x9;When is the investigation due to be completed? </inserted>
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          <inserted>6.&amp;#x9;Will the results of the investigation be made public? </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2022-10-18T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="104">
            <name>South East Drainage Network</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector):</by>  The Minister for Climate, Environment and Water has advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;The Limestone Coast Landscape Board is investigating how the South-Eastern drainage network can be adapted under a changing climate. </inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;It is expected that the total cost of this investigation will be approximately $2.3 million. </inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;No specific funding was allocated in the state budget papers. </inserted>
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          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;There are a range of delivery partners, including Innovative Groundwater Solutions and the Goyder Institute for Water Research, that have been contracted to deliver the investigation. </inserted>
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          <inserted>5.&amp;#x9;It is anticipated that the investigation will be complete by 30 June 2025. </inserted>
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          <inserted>6.&amp;#x9;Yes.</inserted>
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