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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-11-25T11:00:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <startPage num="10363" />
  <endPage num="10455" />
  <dateModified time="2025-11-26T15:43:06+10:30" />
  <proceeding continued="true" uid="1e6eaff4b74e4354bb3c106b18764ca7">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Drought</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Drought</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-11-25T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Drought</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-11-26T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="255abcb62c0d4d7aab2ab4f894d9c63d">the Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) </by>().2 April 2025).  </inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="772f0bbb83554ff2bf175343a2401a33" 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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        <questions>
          <question date="2025-11-25T00:30:00+10:30">
            <name>Drought</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="772f0bbb83554ff2bf175343a2401a33">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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        <text id="20251125a8dbe27edb5e4a0290001625">
          <inserted>The department received 464 applications for the On-Farm Drought Infrastructure Rebate Scheme in January 2025.</inserted>
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        <page num="10447" />
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          <inserted>As at 16 April, 402 of these have been processed with 383 approved and 19 deemed to be ineligible or were withdrawn. The remaining 62 are under assessment.</inserted>
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        <text id="20251125a8dbe27edb5e4a0290001627">
          <inserted>All applicants with applications that have been deemed to be ineligible or withdrawn have been advised of this outcome.</inserted>
        </text>
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