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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-09-11T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Rock Lobster Industry</name>
      <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000033">
        <heading>Rock Lobster Industry</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="2024-09-11T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Rock Lobster Industry</name>
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        <startTime time="2024-09-11T14:28:23+09:30" />
        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000034">
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:28):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before addressing a question to the Minister for Primary Industries on cost recovery.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" kind="interjection">
        <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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        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000035">
          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d">The Hon. C.M. Scriven:</by>  Of what?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question" continued="true">
        <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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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI:</by>  Cost recovery.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. Scriven</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000037">
          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d">The Hon. C.M. Scriven:</by>  Of what?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question" continued="true">
        <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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        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000038">
          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI:</by>  Rock lobster.</text>
        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000039">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question" continued="true">
        <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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        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000040">
          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI:</by>  In 2022, the Premier wrote to key stakeholders reinforcing his government's commitment to reduce licence fees by 50 per cent for fishers in the northern and southern rock lobster fisheries. He wrote, and I quote:</text>
        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000041">
          <inserted>My government stands ready to continue to assist the industry, with a further commitment to review the effectiveness of the current cost recovery model, by considering the merits of different approaches to recovering fees for services that could incorporate more flexibility into what are increasingly volatile markets.</inserted>
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        <text continued="true" id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000042">My questions to the minister are:</text>
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        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000043">1.&amp;#x9;Have rock lobster licence fees reduced over the last two years?</text>
        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000044">2.&amp;#x9;If not, when can rock lobster fishers expect to see the 50 per cent reduction in licence fees promised over two years ago by this state government?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" kind="answer">
        <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="2024-09-11T14:29:26+09:30" />
        <text id="20240911f435c475a6764b8290000045">
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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>  I thank the honourable member for her question, but I think she is quite confused. The 50 per cent reduction in rock lobster licence fees was an election commitment for the first year of this government. That was delivered.</text>
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