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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-06-28T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <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="2023-09-05T12:51:54+09:30" />
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    <name>Motions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Cost of Living</name>
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        <heading>Cost of Living</heading>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000922">Adjourned debate on motion of Hon. R.A.Simms:</text>
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        <inserted>That this council—</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000924">
        <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Recognises that:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;inflation in Australia is at its highest level in more than 20 years putting enormous pressure on South Australians, particularly those on low incomes; and</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;the cost of living is soaring with South Australians facing price hikes on food, fuel, housing and other essentials.</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000927">
        <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Notes the release of the Anglicare Australia Rental Affordability Snapshot 2022 which found:</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000928">
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;only two of 1,125 homes on the market in Greater Adelaide were affordable for single people living on the minimum wage;</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;none of the homes on the market were affordable for single people living on pensions or income support; and</inserted>
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;none of the homes in regional and rural South Australia were affordable for a single person without dependents living on income support.</inserted>
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        <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;Calls on the Malinauskas government to take steps to relieve the cost-of-living pressures faced by South Australians in its first budget by:</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000932">
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;making public transport free;</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000933">
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;introducing rent caps and rent subsidies;</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000934">
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;increasing the wages of public sector workers;</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000935">
        <item sublevel="2">
          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;abolishing materials and services charges and subject fees for public school students; and</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000936">
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          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;significantly increasing the investment in public housing.</inserted>
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      <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000937">(Continued from 4 May 2022.)</text>
      <talker role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159" kind="speech">
        <name>The Hon. R.A. SIMMS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <startTime time="2023-06-28T17:36:04+09:30" />
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          <timeStamp time="2023-06-28T17:36:04+09:30" />
          <by role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159">The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (17:36):</by>  I move:</text>
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          <inserted>That this order of the day be discharged.</inserted>
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        <text id="20230628d234bea5e61c44f9b0000940">Motion carried; order of the day discharged.</text>
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