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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-10-14T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <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>RSPCA</name>
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          <heading>RSPCA</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-10-14T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>RSPCA</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-10-15T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" uid="ed3f974d39bd4322bab0596ee026a1c1">the Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>().2 September 2025).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="ef301dea723e4e56b8cbfc6abda1443a" 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="2025-10-14T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>RSPCA</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="ef301dea723e4e56b8cbfc6abda1443a">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries):</by>  I am advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>The Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA), RSPCA and DEW are operating under an MOU that was negotiated and signed off by the chief executives of RSPCA, DEW and PIRSA in 2015. All departments and the RSPCA continue to operate within the scope of the MOU. I am advised the MOU is due to be reviewed this year—2025.</inserted>
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