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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-02-21T11:00:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2023-03-09T13:28:44+10:30" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000893">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Forestry Plantations</name>
      <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000894">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Forestry Plantations</heading>
        </inserted>
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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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
          </portfolio>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2023-02-21T00:30:00+10:30" qonNum="185">
            <name>Forestry Plantations</name>
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        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000895">
          <inserted>185 <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) </by>().16 November 2022).  Can the minister advise—</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000896">
          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;What is the total funding allocated in the 2022-23 state budget to the establishment of new forestry plantations?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000897">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;What is the total funding allocated over the forward estimates to the establishment of new forestry plantations?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000898">
          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;What is the total funding allocated in the 2022-23 state budget for the federal government Support Plantation Program?</inserted>
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        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000899">
          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;What is the total funding allocated over the forward estimates for the federal government Support Plantation Program?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000900">
          <inserted>5.&amp;#x9;Has an agreement with the federal government regarding the Support Plantation Program been signed?</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <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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        <questions>
          <question date="2023-02-21T00:30:00+10:30" qonNum="185">
            <name>Forestry Plantations</name>
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        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000901">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries):</by>  I am advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000902">
          <inserted>No agreement has been signed with the federal government regarding the Support Plantation Program.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202302211b13b28bd6e84af6a0000903">
          <inserted>The South Australian government is pursuing a suite of significant election commitments to support growth in the state's forest industries including $15 million for a Forestry Centre for Excellence, $2 million for a Forest Products Domestic Manufacturing and Infrastructure Masterplan and $2 million to replace fire towers with new technologies and will investigate opportunities as necessary.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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