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        <heading>Public and Active Transport</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. R.A. SIMMS</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159" uid="2c6ff2f89dc24a68a1ee3c7c9d323a52">The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (14:54):</by>  Does part of the construction work the minister referenced include rail to Mount Barker?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
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            <name>Public and Active Transport</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5413" referenceid="07ef1306959a44c38acfb7dce9a031db" uid="eed76fd4c9574d4b94daef3ca0191ee5">The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Autism) (14:54):</by>  I thank the member for his question and his interest in this space. Regional public transport is important and is something that we need to be looking at, and giving $2 million to make it a permanent fixture of the Mount Barker bus service is also an investment that we have made. We are happy to continue to look at other ways that we can make public transport more accessible and are happy to continue these conversations.</text>
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