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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-08-19T14:15:00+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>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Victims of Crime Fund</name>
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          <heading>Victims of Crime Fund</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3126" referenceid="5c423631416444aeb0c7e273b130ee55" uid="264c908354454d16ac4295c8ee75bb92" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-08-19T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Victims of Crime Fund</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-08-20T00:00:00+09:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="3126" referenceid="5c423631416444aeb0c7e273b130ee55" uid="264c908354454d16ac4295c8ee75bb92">the Hon. D.G.E. HOOD </by>().18 June 2025).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="cf2b41d101c0498fb5093d6a2db5834f" 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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            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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          <question date="2025-08-19T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Victims of Crime Fund</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="cf2b41d101c0498fb5093d6a2db5834f">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  In response to this question, I advised that I would check the year in which payments from the Victims of Crime Fund exceeded the revenue into the fund. </inserted>
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          <inserted>I have been advised that since 2017-18, this has occurred in the 2017-18 and 2022-23 financial years. I am further advised that payments from the fund are expected to exceed revenues in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 financial years, as a result of the state government's commitment of $135 million over two years to the National Redress Scheme.</inserted>
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