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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-06-01T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Australian Education Union</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Australian Education Union</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2023-06-01T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="264">
            <name>Australian Education Union</name>
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          <inserted>264 <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO </by>().26 March 2023).  Can the Minister for Education, Training and Skills, advise:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;For the financial years of 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 (separated by financial year) how much funding was provided by the Department for Education to the Australian Education Union (SA Branch)? </inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;In the 2022-23 budget what funding or grants were provided to the Australian Education Union (SA Branch)? </inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;List the programs and services and the funding amount provided by the Australian Education Union (SA Branch) with funding from the Department for Education in 2022-23?</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="2023-06-01T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="264">
            <name>Australian Education Union</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 Education, Training and Skills has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The department has analysed past transactions and no record of any funding or grants being paid to the Australian Education Union (SA Branch). </inserted>
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          <inserted>In analysing past transactions, it was identified that the department has processed three payments in the period in question. They relate to the following: </inserted>
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            <inserted>$33 in 2018-19 for a 12-month subscription to their AEU Journal.</inserted>
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          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>$688.69 in 2021-22 relating to two payments that were due to overpayment of invoices made by the AEU in error.</inserted>
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