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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-08-30T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Affordable Housing</name>
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        <heading>Affordable Housing</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2023-08-30T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Affordable Housing</name>
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        <startTime time="2023-08-30T14:54:07+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:54):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Attorney-General about housing policy.</text>
        <text id="2023083073405b98e48844fca0000142">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  At the recent Labor Party conference in Brisbane the Attorney's mates in the CFMEU proposed a super profits tax on companies to fund housing. The tax would be a permanent 40 per cent tax on profits for building homes, and the CFMEU argued that taxing companies with a turnover of $100 million or more could help close the gap on social and affordable housing. My questions to the Attorney are:</text>
        <text id="2023083073405b98e48844fca0000144">1.&amp;#x9;Has this policy been discussed between the CFMEU and the government or the Attorney when meeting the CFMEU in his term?</text>
        <text id="2023083073405b98e48844fca0000145">2.&amp;#x9;Does the Attorney-General agree with this particular policy?</text>
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        <text id="2023083073405b98e48844fca0000146">3.&amp;#x9;Did he attend the national conference in Brisbane recently and, if so, did he vote for it?</text>
        <text id="2023083073405b98e48844fca0000147">4.&amp;#x9;How do his fellow SA Labor factional colleagues feel?</text>
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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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        <startTime time="2023-08-30T14:55:14+09:30" />
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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) (14:55):</by>  1. No; 2. I haven't looked at the policy; 3. I was there for part of the conference but didn't vote on that particular policy; and 4. I don't know what my colleagues think about it, I haven't discussed it with them.</text>
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