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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-05-01T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Drought Assistance</name>
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        <heading>Drought Assistance</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="ab40b21a0b294d65a9e2f86fe0d6c1ad" 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="2025-05-01T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Drought Assistance</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="ab40b21a0b294d65a9e2f86fe0d6c1ad">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:30):</by>  Supplementary: within that $55 million support package, will the minister inform the chamber where the $1,500 grants for farmers through the Rural Business Support funds are coming from?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="766e5e1deff04b508478b80403d84e61" 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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          <question date="2025-05-01T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Drought Assistance</name>
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        <startTime time="2025-05-01T14:31:04+09:30" />
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          <timeStamp time="2025-05-01T14:31:04+09:30" />
          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="766e5e1deff04b508478b80403d84e61">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:31):</by>  It's coming from within the package, which is government funds. I am not quite sure what the opposition is trying to get to. I answered this question earlier: it's part of the package.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">An honourable member interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="4babe4cf2119487b942fa2604417ac98" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <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="2025050159b5c763567c4710a0000079">
          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="4babe4cf2119487b942fa2604417ac98">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  The package comes from the Department of Treasury and Finance. It's very unclear what on earth the Leader of the Opposition is going on about.</text>
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