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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-05-18T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Rural Business Support</name>
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        <heading>Rural Business Support</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="2023-05-18T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Rural Business Support</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:29):</by>  Supplementary: will the minister write to her federal colleague the Hon. Murray Watt to ask why he has cut this important program, particularly when small businesses along the Murray are still doing it tough? And will she advocate for its return?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159">The Hon. R.A. Simms 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 Hon. Mr Simms!</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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            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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        <startTime time="2023-05-18T14:29:26+09:30" />
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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) (14:29):</by>  As I advised in my answer, I'm advised that the Australian government has made a decision to not continue the pilot program which was referred to.</text>
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