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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-05-14T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Autism Services</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Autism Services</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2024-05-14T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="336">
            <name>Autism Services</name>
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          <inserted>336 <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO </by>().21 March 2024).  Can the Minister for Education, Training and Skills advise:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Which organisation does the government recognise is the 'peak organisation' for autism in South Australia?</inserted>
        </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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          <question date="2024-05-14T04:45:00+09:30" qonNum="336">
            <name>Autism Services</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 Human Services has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Department of Human Services provides funding to peak bodies across various sectors including carers, families, multicultural communities, social services, financial counselling, volunteering and youth although no organisation is funded as a peak for autism. </inserted>
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          <inserted>In seeking advice about and from the autistic and autism communities, the state government engages with a range of organisations and individuals including but not limited to:</inserted>
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            <inserted>Autism Strategy Advisory Committee;</inserted>
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        <text id="202405141097f05df68a44d3a0000682">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Julia Farr Purple Orange; </inserted>
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        <text id="202405141097f05df68a44d3a0000683">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Autism SA</inserted>
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        <text id="202405141097f05df68a44d3a0000684">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Disability Engagement Group;</inserted>
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        <text id="202405141097f05df68a44d3a0000685">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>Minister's Disability Advisory Council;</inserted>
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        <text id="202405141097f05df68a44d3a0000686">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>South Australian Council on Intellectual Disability;</inserted>
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          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>National Disability Services; and</inserted>
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            <inserted>members of the autism and autistic communities.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Various organisations provide a range of advice, advocacy and services related to autism and, across 2021-22 and 2022-23, Autism SA received more than $73 million in revenue from government sources.</inserted>
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