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A
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Aami Stadium
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2008-02-26
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2008-06-03
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2008-06-04
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Question Time (2)
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-
- Abilities For All Program
- Aboriginal Affairs
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Aboriginal Education
- Aboriginal Interpreters
-
Aboriginal Lands Parliamentary Standing Committee
- Aboriginal Power Cup
- Active8 Premier's Youth Challenge
- Adelaide Botanic Garden
- Adelaide Business Rating
-
Adelaide Cabaret Festival
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Adelaide City Council
-
Adelaide Festival Centre Trust (Financial Restructure) Amendment Bill
-
Adelaide Festival Of Arts
- Adelaide High School
- Adelaide International Guitar Festival
-
Adelaide Park Lands (Facilitation Of Development Of Victoria Park) Amendment Bill
- Adelaide Writers' Week
- Adelaide Zoo
- Adult Community Education
- Advertising, False Billing
- Afl Drugs Policy
- Age Accommodation
- Ageing Plan
- Air Warfare Destroyer
- Alcohol Consumption
- Aldinga Aero Club
- Aldinga Gp Plus Health Care Centre
- Alexander, Mr P.
- Alternative Learning Options Program
- Ambulance Fees
- Ambulance Services
- American Army Small Ships
- Andamooka Primary School
- Animal Welfare Regulations
- Antisocial Behaviour Orders
-
Anzac Day
-
2008-04-29
-
Grievance Debate (1)
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Question Time (1)
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-
-
Appropriation Bill
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-17
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2008-06-18
-
Bills (2)
- Mr HAMILTON-SMITH, Ms CHAPMAN
- Ms CHAPMAN, Mr HANNA, Dr McFETRIDGE, Mrs PENFOLD, Mr WILLIAMS, Mr GRIFFITHS, Mr PISONI, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, Dr McFETRIDGE, The Hon. S.W. KEY, Mrs PENFOLD, Ms SIMMONS, Mr WILLIAMS, Mr BIGNELL, Ms CHAPMAN, Ms BEDFORD, Mr PEDERICK, Mr GRIFFITHS, Mr VENNING, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY
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- 2008-06-19
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2008-07-03
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Apy Lands
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2008-05-07
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Question Time (2)
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-
-
Apy Lands Inquiry
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2008-05-06
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
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Question Time (1)
-
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-07-24
-
- APY Lands Inquiry
- Apy Lands, Airstrips
- Apy Lands, Housing
- Apy Lands, Sport And Recreation
- Apy Lands, State Government Transaction Services
- Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary
- Arts, Regional Centres
- Asperger's Syndrome
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Assent
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2007-10-16
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-26
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-17
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2008-06-17
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-24
-
- Asset Disposal
- Asset Sales
- Assitej World Congress And Festival
- Attorney-General's Department
-
Attorney-General's Operating Account
- Attorney-General's Remarks
- Audit Plans
-
Auditor-General's Report
- 2007-10-16
-
2007-10-17
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
-
Question Time (4)
-
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-20
-
2007-11-21
- 2007-11-22
- 2008-02-26
- 2008-02-27
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-07-03
- Australian Business Arts Foundation Awards
- Australian Centre For Plant Functional Genomics
- Australian Crime And Violence Prevention Awards
-
Australian Energy Market Commission Establishment (Consumer Advocacy Panel) Amendment Bill
- Australian Housing And Urban Research Institute
- Australian Of The Year Awards
- Australian Workplace Agreements
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-
B
- Badcoe, Major Peter
- Barley Contracts
- Barossa Train Service
- Barrier Highway
- Beersheba Charge
- Beulah Park Fire Station
-
Bhp Billiton
-
2008-04-30
-
Question Time (2)
-
- 2008-07-24
-
-
Bhp Desalination Plant
-
Births, Deaths And Marriages Registration (Registration Of Deaths) Amendment Bill
-
Black Spot Program
-
Blackwood Park Road Link Costs
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Blanchetown To Morgan Road
- Blood Lead Levels
- Boats, Grey Water Treatment System
- Bogus, Unregistered And Deregistered Health Practitioners
- Bore Water
- Bradken Foundry
- Bragg, Member For
- Breastscreen Sa
- Bridge Structures
- Brighton Surf Lifesaving Club
- Broadband Rollout
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Broadband Services
- Broadband Strategy
- Broomhill, Hon. G.r.
- Brown Hill Wind Farm
- Budget Expenditure
- Budget Overspending
- Budget Papers
- Bus Replacement
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Bus Services
-
Bushfires
-
Business And Consumer Confidence
-
2008-02-26
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Question Time (2)
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-
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Business And Parliament Trust
- Business Growth Program
- Business Investment
- Business Practices, Energy And Telecommunications Industries
- Butler, Sir Richard
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C
- Cabinet Reshuffle
- Cakeage
- Calisthenics
- Cameron, Hon. C.r.
- Cancer Council Of South Australia
- Capital Projects
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Carbon Emissions
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2008-02-14
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- Careerstart Sa
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Case Management Secretariat
- Chamber, Conversations
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Chamber, Photography
- Child Adoption
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Child Protection
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Child Sex Offenders Registration (Registration Of Internet Activities) Amendment Bill
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Child Workers
-
Childhood Obesity
-
2008-04-01
- 2008-06-05
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- Children In
- Children In Care
-
Children In State Care Apology
-
Children In State Care Inquiry
-
2008-04-01
-
Grievance Debate (1)
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
-
Question Time (1)
-
- 2008-04-02
-
2008-04-08
- 2008-04-09
-
2008-04-10
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
-
Question Time (1)
-
-
2008-05-06
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Grievance Debate (1)
-
Question Time (1)
-
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-17
-
- Children's Literature
- Cigarette Sales
-
Civil Liability (Food Donors And Distributors) Amendment Bill
- Civil Liability (Recreational Services) Amendment Bill
-
Classification (Publications, Films And Computer Games) (Classification Process) Amendment Bill
-
Clayton-Walsh Report
- Cleaning Industry
-
Climate Change
- Clipsal 500
- Clothing Outworkers
- Clovelly Park Railway Station
-
Collections For Charitable Purposes (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill
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Commencement
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-17
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-23
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-20
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-22
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-13
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-26
- 2008-02-27
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-08
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-30
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-06
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-04
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-18
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-07-03
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-23
- 2008-07-24
-
Committee Stage
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-16
-
2007-10-17
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Bills (2)
-
- 2007-10-17
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
-
2007-10-24
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-14
-
2007-11-22
-
Bills (2)
-
- 2007-11-22
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2008-02-12
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2008-02-13
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
-
2008-02-26
-
Bills (2)
-
-
2008-02-27
- 2008-02-28
-
2008-03-04
- 2008-03-05
-
2008-03-05
-
Bills (2)
-
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-04-03
-
2008-04-08
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2008-04-09
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-10
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2008-04-29
- 2008-04-29
-
2008-05-06
-
2008-05-07
-
2008-05-08
-
Bills (2)
-
-
2008-06-03
- 2008-06-03
-
2008-06-04
-
Bills (2)
-
- 2008-06-18
-
2008-07-22
- 2008-07-23
-
2008-07-24
- Common Ground Franklin Street
- Community Builders Program
- Community Clubs
- Companion Card
- Competitiveness Council
- Computer Games Classification
-
Conference
-
2008-03-06
-
Bills (2)
-
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-04-08
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-30
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-06
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-04
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-18
- 2008-06-18
- 2008-06-19
-
2008-06-19
-
Bills (2)
-
- 2008-07-03
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-23
- 2008-07-24
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- Consolidated Financial Report
- Constantinople
- Constitution (Electoral Redistribution) Amendment Bill
-
Constitution (Legislative Council Reform) Amendment Bill
- Constitution (Number Of Ministers) Amendment Bill
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Consultants And Contractors
- Consumer Affairs Ministerial Council
- Consumer Goods, Green Marketing
- Container Deposit Increase
- Contract Positions
- Contractors
- Controlled Environmental Diseases
-
Controlled Substances (Cannabis Offences) Amendment Bill
-
Controlled Substances (Controlled Drugs, Precursors And Cannabis) Amendment Bill
- 2008-04-03
-
2008-05-06
- 2008-07-22
- Controlled Substances (Cultivation Of Controlled Plants) Amendment Bill
-
Controlled Substances (Drug Detection Powers) Amendment Bill
-
Controlled Substances (Possession Of Prescribed Equipment) Amendment Bill
-
Cooper Discoverer Cruises
- Cooper, Ms N.
- Coorong
-
Correctional Services (Application Of Truth In Sentencing) Amendment Bill
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Council Of Australian Governments
- Country Ambulance Service Upgrade
-
Country Health Care Plan
-
2008-06-17
-
Grievance Debate (3)
-
Question Time (2)
-
-
2008-06-18
-
Grievance Debate (2)
-
Question Time (11)
- Mr HAMILTON-SMITH, The Hon. M.D. RANN
- Ms CHAPMAN, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- Mr RAU, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- The Hon. R.G. KERIN, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- The Hon. R.G. KERIN, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- Mr VENNING, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- Mr WILLIAMS, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- Mr PEDERICK, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- Mr GRIFFITHS, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- Mr GRIFFITHS, The Hon. J.D. HILL
- The Hon. G.M. GUNN, The Hon. J.D. HILL
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- 2008-06-19
-
2008-07-03
- 2008-07-22
-
2008-07-24
-
Grievance Debate (3)
-
Motions (1)
-
Petitions (2)
-
Question Time (3)
-
-
-
Country Health Sa
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Country Health Services
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Country Hospital Donations
-
2008-07-24
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Question Time (2)
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-
- Country Regions, Professionals
- Country Transport Services
- Courts Upgrade
- Crime Prevention Fund
- Crime Prevention Unit
- Crime Statistics
- Crimes, Mr E.h.
-
Criminal Assets Confiscation (Serious Offences) Amendment Bill
-
Criminal Law (Clamping, Impounding And Forfeiture Of Vehicles) (Prescribed Offences) Amendment Bill
- Criminal Law (Sentencing) (Abolition Of Suspended Sentences) Amendment Bill
-
Criminal Law (Sentencing) (Victims Of Crime) Amendment Bill
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-11-22
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-18
-
2008-06-19
-
Bills (2)
-
-
Criminal Law Consolidation (Double Jeopardy) Amendment Bill
-
2008-02-13
-
Bills (2)
-
-
2008-03-04
- 2008-07-03
- 2008-07-22
-
-
Criminal Law Consolidation (Rape And Sexual Offences) Amendment Bill
-
Crown Land Management Bill
- Cruise Ship Industry
- Cultana Army Training Camp
-
Cummins Rural Care Facility
-
D
- Dairy Industry
- Dangerous Offenders
- Daylight Saving
- Deep Creek
- Defence And Advanced Manufacturing Industries
- Defence Industry
- Defence Sa
- Defence Sa Administrative Unit
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Dental Health
- Department Amalgamations
- Deputy Clerk, Appointment
- Deputy Premier's Remarks
- Deputy Speaker's Ruling, Dissent
- Dernancourt Primary School
-
Desalination Plants
- Diesel Emissions Equipment
- Disability Employment Strategy
-
Disability Funding
- Disability, Recreational And Physical Activity
- Division Count
- Dna Technology
-
Doctors Dispute
- Dodd, Mr A.
- Dog And Cat Management (Cats) Amendment Bill
- Dog And Cat Management (Council Plans Of Management) Amendment Bill
- Domiciliary Care Sa
-
Dowie, Mr J.
-
2008-04-02
-
Grievance Debate (1)
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
-
-
- Driver And Vehicle Licensing
- Driver's Licence Curfews
-
Drought
-
2007-10-16
-
Grievance Debate (1)
-
Matter of Urgency (1)
-
- 2007-10-17
- 2007-10-25
- 2008-04-01
-
- Drug Driving
- Drugs, Penalties
- Dundovic, Mr D.v.
-
E
- E-Learning Program
- Early Childhood Development Services
-
Easling, Mr T.
- East Turkistan
-
Economic And Finance Committee
- Economic And Finance Committee: Consumer Credit And Investment Schemes
- Economic And Finance Committee: Emergency Services Levy
- Economic And Finance Committee: Franchises
- Economic Development Board
- Economic Strategy And Policy Development Program
- Ecotourism
- Eden Hills Railway Station
-
Education (Compulsory Education Age) Amendment Bill
-
Education And Children's Services Department
-
2008-02-13
-
Answers to Questions (2)
-
-
- Education Budget
- Education, National Curriculum
- Education, Socioeconomic Status Funding Model
- Education, Special Needs
-
Election Advertising
-
2007-10-18
-
Question Time (2)
-
-
-
Election Of Senators (Close Of Rolls) Amendment Bill
-
Elective Surgery
- Electoral (Voting Age) Amendment Bill
-
Electricity (Feed-In Scheme—Residential Solar Systems) Amendment Bill
- Elizabeth Grove Community Campus
- Elizabeth Vale Primary School
-
Emergency Services Funding (Protection Of Funds) Amendment Bill
- Emergency Services Workers
- Emissions Trading Scheme
-
Employee Benefits
- Employees, Full Time
- Employers Mutual Case Managers
- Employment
- Entertainment Facility
-
Environment Protection (Board Of Authority) Amendment Bill
-
Environment Protection (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill
-
Environment Protection (Site Contamination) Amendment Bill
-
Environment Protection Authority
- Environment, Resources And Development Committee
- Environment, Resources And Development Committee: Coastal Development
- Environmental Education Centre
- Epode Program
- Equine Influenza
- Ernabella Community
-
Estimates Committees
-
2008-06-18
-
Bills (2)
- Mr HAMILTON-SMITH, Ms CHAPMAN
- Ms CHAPMAN, Mr HANNA, Dr McFETRIDGE, Mrs PENFOLD, Mr WILLIAMS, Mr GRIFFITHS, Mr PISONI, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, Dr McFETRIDGE, The Hon. S.W. KEY, Mrs PENFOLD, Ms SIMMONS, Mr WILLIAMS, Mr BIGNELL, Ms CHAPMAN, Ms BEDFORD, Mr PEDERICK, Mr GRIFFITHS, Mr VENNING, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY
-
- 2008-06-19
-
2008-07-03
-
- Euthanasia
- Evanston Gardens Primary School
- Excess Funds Account
- Exhaust Systems
-
Expiation Notices
-
Eyre Peninsula Water Supply
-
F
- Fair Trading (Telemarketing) Amendment Bill
-
Fair Work (Prohibition Against Bargaining Services Fee) Amendment Bill
- Fairness Test
- Families And Communities Department
- Families Sa, Care Placement
- Fashoda Street Property
-
Federal Election
- Federal Funding
- Female Foeticide
-
Final Stages
-
2007-10-16
- 2007-10-17
- 2007-10-17
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-23
- 2007-10-23
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-20
- 2007-11-20
- 2007-11-20
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-21
-
2007-11-22
-
Bills (2)
-
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-13
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-27
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-08
- 2008-04-08
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-30
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-06-03
-
2008-06-17
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-18
- 2008-06-18
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-07-03
- 2008-07-03
- 2008-07-03
-
2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
-
2008-07-24
-
- Financial Data Collection
- Financial Market Investments
- Financial Reconciliation
- Fines Revenue
- Fire And Emergency Services Act Review
- Fire Hydrants
-
Firearms (Firearms Prohibition Orders) Amendment Bill
- Firearms Act
- First Home Buyers
- Fisheries Management Regulations
- Five Star Print
- Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps
- Fleurieu Peninsula Water Supply
- Flinders Medical Centre Casual Nurse Shifts
- Flinders Medical Centre Redevelopment
-
Flood Damaged Roads
- Flooding
- Florey Adelaide Male Ageing Study
- Food Additives
- Food Hygiene
- Food Labelling Laws
- Food Plan
- Footpaths
- Foreign Aid Policy
-
Forensic Pathologists
-
2008-04-08
-
- Forensic Science Program
- Formula One Exhibition Race
- Franchises
- Fraud Fortnight
- Fuelwatch
- Further Education
- Further Education, Employment, Science And Technology Department, Employee Benefits
- Further Education, Employment, Science And Technology Department, Expenditure
- Further Education, Employment, Science And Technology Department, It Upgrade
-
G
- Gambling, Problem
-
Gaming Machines (Hours Of Operation) Amendment Bill
- Gawler Railway Station Restoration
- Gender Workplace Report
- General Ledger Expenditure
- General Motors Holden
- Gepps Cross Intersection
- Giles Electorate
- Gladstone Explosion
-
Glenside Hospital Redevelopment
-
2007-10-17
-
Grievance Debate (1)
-
Question Time (1)
-
-
2007-10-23
-
Petitions (1)
-
Question Time (1)
-
-
2007-10-24
-
Grievance Debate (1)
-
Question Time (1)
-
- 2007-10-25
-
2007-11-13
-
Grievance Debate (1)
-
Petitions (1)
-
- 2007-11-20
-
2008-02-12
-
Question Time (2)
-
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-26
- 2008-02-27
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-04-02
-
2008-04-09
-
Parliamentary Procedure (1)
-
Petitions (1)
-
- 2008-04-30
- 2008-05-06
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-07-23
-
- Gomez, Mr R.
-
Goods And Services Figures
- Goods And Services Tax
-
Goulburn-Murray Water Recovery Project
-
2007-11-15
-
Question Time (2)
-
-
- Gould Group
- Government Advertising (Objectivity, Fairness and Accountability) Bill
- Government Advertising (Objectivity, Fairness And Accountability) Bill
- Government Boards And Committees Remuneration
-
Government Car Park Land, Walkerville
-
2008-05-08
-
-
Government Employee Housing
-
2008-02-26
-
- Government Finance Monitoring
-
Government Ict
-
2007-10-18
-
Question Time (2)
-
- 2007-11-22
-
- Government Legislative Program
- Government Review
- Government Services
- Gp Plus Emergency Hospital Task Force
- Graffiti Control (Carrying Graffiti Implements) Amendment Bill
- Graffiti Control (Orders on Conviction) Amendment Bill
- Graffiti Control (Sale of Graffiti Implements) Amendment Bill
- Graffiti Control (Sale Of Graffiti Implements) Amendment Bill
- Graffiti Vandalism
- Grain Marketing
- Grants, Non-Government Entities
- Greek Orthodox Church
- Green Cycle Paths Program
- Green Manufacturing
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Group Training Organisations
- Growing Prosperity Program
- Guardianship Board
-
H
-
Hammill House
- Hampstead Preschool
- Hands On Sa
- Harmony Day
- Hartley Electorate
- Hay And Straw Carriers
- Hazard Default Notice
- Health
- Health And Medical Research Review
-
Health Care Bill
-
2007-10-23
-
2007-10-24
- 2007-10-25
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-04-01
-
-
Health Funding
- 2008-02-28
-
2008-04-02
-
Question Time (2)
-
- Health Ministers' Conference
- Health Reform Program
- Health Reforms
-
Health System
-
2008-04-02
-
- Healthdirect
-
Healthy Eating Program
- High Court Vacancies
- Higher Education Scholarships
- History Trust And Sa Museum Revenue
- Holdfast Shores
-
Home Support Services
- Homestart
- Hoon Driving Laws
- Hospital Boards
-
Hospital Chief Executives
- Hospital Statistics
-
Hospital Waiting Lists
-
Housing Affordability
-
2008-03-04
-
Question Time (2)
-
- 2008-04-30
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-07
-
-
Housing Sa
- Housing Sa Tenancy Agreements
-
Housing Trust
- Housing Trust Survey Lines
-
Housing Trust Waiting List
-
Housing Trust Water Meters
-
2008-02-26
-
Grievance Debate (1)
-
Petitions (1)
-
- 2008-04-08
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-07-23
-
- Human Remains
- Hyde Park Development Proposal
-
-
I
-
Ict Contracts
-
2008-05-01
-
Question Time (2)
-
-
- Ict Services
- Ikaria, Anniversary Of Liberation
- Immunisation Clinic General Practice
- Imvs Report
-
Independent Commission Against Corruption
-
Independent Commission Against Crime and Corruption Bill
-
2008-02-28
-
Bills (1)
- Parliament House Matters
-
-
-
Independent Commission Against Crime And Corruption Bill
- Indigenous Education
-
Indigenous Medical Scholarships Project
-
Industrial Action
- Industrial Relations
-
Industrial Relations Commission
- Industrial Relations Laws
- Infant Mortality
- Infrastructure Projects
- Infrastructure Spending
- Initiative Spending
- Innovation Commercialisation And Development Grants
- Institute Of Physical Activity
- Interest Payments
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Interest Rates
- 2007-11-20
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2008-04-29
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Ministerial Statement (1)
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Question Time (1)
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- International Association Of Labour Inspection
- International Men's Health Week
- International Solar Cities Congress
- International Women's Day
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International Year Of Languages
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Introduction and First Reading
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Introduction And First Reading
- 2007-10-17
- 2007-10-17
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-20
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2008-02-12
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2008-02-13
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Bills (2)
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- 2008-02-13
- 2008-02-13
- 2008-02-13
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-06-04
- 2008-06-05
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2008-06-05
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-18
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
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2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
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2008-07-24
- Italo-Australian Mp Forum
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J
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K
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Kangaroo Island Fires
- Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Board
- Kangaroo Island Transport
- Kanpi Community
- Kapunda Hospital
- Kesab
- King Street Bridge
- Kingston Electorate
- Kingston, Charles Cameron, Exhumation
- Kirton Point Emergency Services Centre
- Klemzig Primary School
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Koonibba Community
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2008-07-22
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Answers to Questions (2)
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L
- Labor Government
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Labor Party Fundraising
- 2008-04-08
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2008-04-09
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Question Time (3)
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-
Lake Eyre Basin (Intergovernmental Agreement) (Ratification Of Amendments) Amendment Bill
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Lake Victoria
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2007-10-23
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Question Time (2)
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-
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Land Management Corporation
- Land Prices
- Land Tax
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Landlord And Tenant (Distress For Rent—Health Records Exemption) Amendment Bill
- Languages Education
- Le Cornu
- Leadership Development Program
- Lean Education And Application Network Programs
- Legacy Club of Adelaide
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Legal Aid Funding
- Legal Aid, Homeless People
- Legal Fees
-
Legal Profession Bill
- 2007-10-16
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2007-10-17
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Bills (2)
-
- 2008-02-27
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-05
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2008-03-06
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Bills (2)
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- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-08
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-30
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-06
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-04
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-18
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-07-03
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-23
- 2008-07-24
-
Legislative Council Vacancy
- 2007-10-23
- 2007-10-24
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2007-10-25
-
Question Time (2)
-
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-21
- 2008-07-24
-
Legislative Review Committee
- Lehman, Ms M.
- Leigh Creek Hospital
-
Level Crossings
- Liberal Party Of Australia
-
Liquor Licensing (Certificates Of Approval) Amendment Bill
- Liquor Licensing (Power To Bar) Amendment Bill
-
Liquor Licensing Hours
- Literacy And Numeracy
-
Living Books
- Loan Write-Off
- Lobbying And Ministerial Accountability Bill
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Local Government
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Local Government (Advertising Material) Amendment Bill
- Local Government (Auditor-General) Amendment Bill
- Local Government (Litter) Amendment Bill
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Local Government (Superannuation Scheme) Amendment Bill
- Local Government Disaster Fund
- Local Government Education Program
- Local Government Relations
- Long Flat Irrigation Trust
- Long Term Borrowings
- Lowly Peninsula
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Lyell Mcewin Hospital
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M
- Magarey Farlam
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Makk And Mcleay Nursing Home
- Mannum
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Mannum Ferry
- Manufacturing Sector
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Marathon Resources
- Marble Hill
- Marble Hill (Protection) Bill
- Marcos Engineering Limited
- Marden Senior College
- Marine Infrastructure
- Marine Maintenance
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Marine Parks Bill
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Marine Protected Areas
- Marine Scalefish Fishery
- Marine Science Infrastructure
- Maritime Skills Centre
-
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson Hospital
- 2007-10-17
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2008-02-28
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Question Time (2)
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- 2008-04-02
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2008-04-09
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
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Question Time (1)
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2008-04-10
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-07-22
- Mass Action Program
- Maternity Hospitals
-
Matter Of Privilege
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2008-03-04
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Matter of Privilege (2)
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- Mclaren Vale Wine Region
- Mcleod's Daughters
- Mcseveney, Elaine
- Medical Records
- Medical Recruitment
- Medical Research
- Medical Staff, Overseas Travel
- Medicare Levy
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Member's Remarks
- Members' Interests Register
- Men's Health
- Mental Health Training
-
Message From Governor
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-06-03
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2008-06-05
- Metropolitan Adelaide Industrial Land Strategy
- Metropolitan Fire Service Land Purchase
- Metropolitan Hospital Efficiency And Performance Review
- Middle River Dam
- Migration, Baltic States
- Mineral Exploration
- Mining And Energy Sectors
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Mining Sector Employment
- Minister's Remarks
- Mitsubishi Employees, Lending Institutions
-
Mitsubishi Motors
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2008-02-12
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
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Question Time (2)
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- 2008-02-13
- 2008-02-14
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Mobile Phones
- Mobilong Prison
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Modbury Hospital
- Montacute Country Fire Service Brigade
- Morgan-Whyalla Pipeline
- Motel Accommodation
- Mother's Day
- Motor Accident Commission
- Motor Vehicle Accidents
- Motor Vehicle Industry Funding
- Motor Vehicle Registration Database
-
Motor Vehicles (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-21
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2007-11-22
-
Bills (2)
-
- 2008-02-12
-
Motorcycle Gangs
- 2007-11-20
- 2008-02-12
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2008-05-06
-
Question Time (2)
-
-
Mount Barker Hospital
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Mount Bold Reservoir
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2008-02-13
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2008-02-14
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Question Time (2)
-
- 2008-02-27
-
- Mount Lofty Ranges Water Catchment
- Mountford, Rev. J.
- Murray
- Murray Bridge Council Award
- Murray Lakes Clean-Up
-
Murray River
- 2007-10-23
- 2007-11-15
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-05-06
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2008-07-03
-
Grievance Debate (3)
-
-
Murray River Drought Management
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2007-11-15
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Adjournment Debate (1)
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Motions (1)
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2008-07-03
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Question Time (2)
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-
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Murray River Irrigators
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2007-11-14
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Grievance Debate (1)
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
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-
2007-11-15
- 2008-02-13
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2008-06-04
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Question Time (2)
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-
- Murray River Water Allocations
-
Murray River, Lower Lakes
-
Murray-Darling Basin
- 2007-11-15
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2008-04-01
-
Question Time (2)
-
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-04-03
-
2008-04-10
-
Question Time (2)
-
- 2008-05-08
-
2008-07-23
-
Grievance Debate (3)
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Motions (1)
-
- 2008-07-24
-
Murray-Darling Basin Agreement
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-30
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2008-07-03
-
N
- National 2020 Summit
-
National Electricity (South Australia) (National Electricity Law—Miscellaneous Amendments) Amendment Bill
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National Gas (South Australia) Bill
- National Heart Week
- National Men's Health Forum
- National Ride To Work Day
- National Youth Week
- Native Vegetation
-
Native Vegetation (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill
-
Natural Resources Committee
- Natural Resources Committee: Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management Board
- Natural Resources Committee: Northern And Yorke Natural Resources Management Board
- Natural Resources Committee: South-East Natural Resources Management Board
-
Natural Resources Management
- Neighbourhood Dispute Resolution Bill
- Neilson, Mr T.
- Netball Stadium
- Netball World Championships
-
Newport Quays
- Ngarrindjeri Regional Partnership Agreement
- No Confidence Motion: Minister For Health
- No Confidence Motion: Minister For Transport
- Noarlunga Hospital
-
Noarlunga Rail Line
-
Northern Expressway
-
Northern Suburbs
- 2008-04-30
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2008-05-01
-
Grievance Debate (1)
-
Question Time (1)
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- Norwood Swimming Club
- Notices And Orders Of The Day, Private Members' Business
- Notices Of Motion
- Nuclear Power Stations
- Nuclear Waste
- Nurses' Duties
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O
- O-Bahn Corridor
- Oaklands Park Railway Station
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Occupational Health, Safety And Welfare (Penalties) Amendment Bill
- Odeon Theatre
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Office For Women
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2008-02-12
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- Office Of The Director Of Public Prosecutions
- Office Of The North
- Oliphant Centre
- Olympic Games
- Ombudsman's Report
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On-The-Spot Fines
- Onkaparinga City Council
- Organ Donation
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Organised Crime
- Outback Tourism
- Ovarian Cancer
-
Overtaking Lanes
-
2007-10-16
-
Answers to Questions (2)
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- 2008-02-12
- 2008-06-05
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P
- P-Plate Drivers
- Paedophile Register
- Palestine
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Papers
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-23
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-20
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-22
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-02-26
- 2008-02-27
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-04-08
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-30
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-06
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-08
- 2008-06-03
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-07-03
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-23
- 2008-07-24
- Para West Early Learning Centre Preschool
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Parliamentary Committee On Occupational Safety, Rehabilitation And Compensation
- Parliamentary Committee On Occupational Safety, Rehabilitation And Compensation: Workplace Injuries And Deaths
- Passenger Transport (Disciplinary Powers) Amendment Bill
- Passenger Transport (Safety Of Passengers) Amendment Bill
- Patawalonga Barrage Upgrade
- Patient Assisted Transport Scheme
- Patient Medical Costs
-
Paxton Report
- 2008-02-12
- 2008-04-29
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2008-05-01
-
Question Time (2)
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-
Pay-Roll Tax (Harmonisation Project) Amendment Bill
- Payroll Procedures
- Peak Oil Theory
-
Penalty Management Services
-
2008-02-28
-
Answers to Questions (2)
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- Penguin Club Of Australia
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Penola Pulp Mill Authorisation Bill
- Pensions
- Pierson, Margaret
- Pink Ribbon Day
- Pinnaroo
- Pipalyatjara Community
- Planning
- Planning Reform
- Plant And Equipment Disposal
- Plastic Bags
- Playford City Council District
- Police Complaints Authority
- Police Handguns
- Police Plane
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Police Resources
- Police, Highway Patrol
- Police, Unley
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Policy And Planning Program
-
2007-10-16
-
Answers to Questions (3)
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- Polish Hill River Church Museum Gift
- Political Donations
- Pollution Complaints
- Polomka, Mr G.
- Population Growth
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Port Augusta Gangs
- Port River Bridges
- Port River Expressway
- Port Stanvac Refinery
- Poverty
- Prawns
- Pregnancy Sa Telephone Service
- Premier's Anzac School Prize
- Premier's Be Active Challenge
- Premier's Comments
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Premier's Council For Women
-
2008-02-12
-
Answers to Questions (1)
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Question Time (1)
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-
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Premier's Reading Challenge
- Prescribed Medications
-
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (Animal Welfare) Amendment Bill
- 2008-03-04
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-06-03
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2008-06-04
-
Bills (2)
-
- 2008-06-18
- 2008-07-22
- Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Act
-
Price And Safety Compliance
-
2008-02-12
-
Answers to Questions (2)
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-
- Prime Ministerial Visit
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Prince Alfred College Incorporation (Constitution Of Council) Amendment Bill
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Prisons
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2008-05-08
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Private Members' Business
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Private Parking Areas (Penalties) Amendment Bill
- Procurement Reform Program
- Property, Plant And Equipment Purchase
- Prostate Cancer
- Protocol Unit Procurement Transactions
- Public Accounts Committee
- Public Hospitals, Adverse Events
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Public Hospitals, Food Services
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2008-06-17
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Question Time (2)
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Public Housing
- Public Land
- Public Liability And Professional Indemnity Insurance
- Public Non-Financial Corporations
- Public Sector Comparison
- Public Sector Employment
- Public Sector Separation Packages
- Public Sector Wages
- Public Sector Week
- Public Service Employee Benefits
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Public Service Employee Numbers
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2008-02-13
-
Answers to Questions (2)
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2008-04-02
-
Answers to Questions (2)
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- 2008-06-05
-
-
Public Service Employees
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Public Transport
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Public Transport Patronage
- Public Trustee Office
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Public Works Committee
- Public Works Committee: Cast Metals Precinct
- Public Works Committee: Clayton Water Supply
- Public Works Committee: Craigmore High School
- Public Works Committee: Dunstan Playhouse
- Public Works Committee: Elizabeth Park Neighbourhood Renewal Project
- Public Works Committee: Flinders Medical Centre Redevelopment
- Public Works Committee: Flood Damage Rectification In Various National Parks
- Public Works Committee: Ifould Apartments
- Public Works Committee: Little Para Dam Safety Upgrade
- Public Works Committee: Northern Expressway
- Public Works Committee: Old Stock Exchange Building
- Public Works Committee: Playford North Regeneration Project—Andrews Farm
- Public Works Committee: Playford North Urban Renewal Project
- Public Works Committee: Rail Revitalisation Project
- Public Works Committee: Virginia Reclaimed Water Pipeline
- Public Works Committee: Whyalla Pipeline Pumping Stations
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Public-Private Partnerships
- Publishing Committee
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Queen's Counsel
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R
- Racing Industry
- Radioactive Waste
- Rail Contract Management
- Rail Network, Seaford Rise
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Rail Safety Bill
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Rail Track Replacement
- Rail, Standard Gauge
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Rail, Train And Bus Union
- Railway Re-Sleepering
- Ramos-Horta, Dr J.
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Rape And Sexual Offences
- Raukkan Community
- Reconciliation, Youth
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Recreation And Sport Funding
- Recreational Boating Facilities
- Recreational Trails
- Referendum (Electoral Redistribution) Bill
- Referendum (Legislative Council Reform) Bill
- Refugees, Sporting Activities
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Regional Development Boards
- Regional Employment
- Registration And Licensing Transactions
- Remembrance Day
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Renal Service
- Renewable Energy
- Renmark Hospital
- Rental Accommodation, Regional South Australia
- Repatriation General Hospital
- Research And Development Expenditure
- Retail Service
- Revenuesa
- Review Of Priorities
- Ring Cycle
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Road Maintenance
- Road Maintenance, Davenport Electorate
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Road Safety
- Road Safety Cameras
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Road Sealing
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Road Traffic (Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue) Amendment Bill
- Road Transport Requirements
- Roads, Rural Sealed Network
- Roadside Rest Areas
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Rodeos
- Rodeos, Fees
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Rodeos, Regulations
- Roma Mitchell Community Legal Centre
- Rotary Club Of St Peters
- Roxby Downs
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Royal Adelaide Hospital
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Royal Adelaide Hospital, Mentally Ill Patients
-
2008-04-09
-
Ministerial Statement (1)
-
Question Time (1)
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-
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S
- Sa Ambulance Call Direct Service
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Sa Ambulance Service
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Sa Water
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-11-21
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2008-02-13
- 2008-05-01
- Sa Water Capital Works
- Sa Water Charter
- Saicorp
- Salvation Army Alcohol Stabilisation Program
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Santos
-
Santos Limited (Deed Of Undertaking) Bill
- Save The River Murray Fund Annual Report
- School Closures
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School Computers
- School Facilities
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School Funding
-
School Maintenance
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2007-11-21
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- School Uniforms
- School-To-Work Program
- Schoolies Week
- Schools, Environmental Sustainability
- Schools, Physical Fitness
- Schools, Water And Energy Consumption
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Science And Research Development
- Scotdesco Community
- Scouts Youth Team Challenge
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Second Reading
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-16
- 2007-10-17
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2007-10-17
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Bills (2)
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- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
- 2007-10-18
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2007-10-23
- 2007-10-23
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-24
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2007-10-24
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-24
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-13
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-14
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
- 2007-11-15
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2007-11-20
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
- 2007-11-22
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2008-02-12
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2008-02-13
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Bills (2)
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2008-02-13
- 2008-02-13
- 2008-02-13
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-14
- 2008-02-26
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2008-02-27
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-02-28
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2008-02-28
-
Bills (1)
- Parliament House Matters
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- 2008-02-28
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-03-04
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2008-03-04
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-05
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2008-03-05
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Bills (2)
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- 2008-03-05
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-03-06
- 2008-04-01
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2008-04-01
- 2008-04-01
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2008-04-02
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-04-02
- 2008-04-02
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- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
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- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-03
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-09
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-10
- 2008-04-29
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2008-04-29
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-29
- 2008-04-30
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2008-04-30
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-01
- 2008-05-06
- 2008-05-06
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2008-05-06
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2008-05-07
- 2008-05-07
- 2008-05-08
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2008-06-03
- 2008-06-03
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- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-05
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2008-06-05
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-05
- 2008-06-17
- 2008-06-17
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2008-06-18
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Bills (2)
- Mr HAMILTON-SMITH, Ms CHAPMAN
- Ms CHAPMAN, Mr HANNA, Dr McFETRIDGE, Mrs PENFOLD, Mr WILLIAMS, Mr GRIFFITHS, Mr PISONI, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, Dr McFETRIDGE, The Hon. S.W. KEY, Mrs PENFOLD, Ms SIMMONS, Mr WILLIAMS, Mr BIGNELL, Ms CHAPMAN, Ms BEDFORD, Mr PEDERICK, Mr GRIFFITHS, Mr VENNING, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY, The Hon. K.O. FOLEY
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- 2008-06-18
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
- 2008-06-19
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2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
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2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-22
- 2008-07-23
- 2008-07-23
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2008-07-24
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Bills (10)
- The Hon. I.F. EVANS, The Hon. I.F. EVANS
- Mr KOUTSANTONIS, The Hon. I.F. EVANS
- Mr HANNA, Mr KOUTSANTONIS, Mr GRIFFITHS, Mr HANNA
- The Hon. G.M. GUNN
- Ms SIMMONS
- Mr PEDERICK
- Mr HANNA
- Mr KOUTSANTONIS
- Mr GRIFFITHS, Mr GOLDSWORTHY, Dr MCFETRIDGE, The Hon. I.F. EVANS, Mr BIGNELL, Mr PEDERICK, The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL
- Bills
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- Security Exercise
- Security Intelligence Section
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Select Committee On Balancing Work And Life Responsibilities
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Senior Secondary Assessment Board Of South Australia (Review) Amendment Bill
- Seniors, Community Involvement
- Sentencing, Armed Robbery
- Sentinel Events
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Serious And Organised Crime (Control) Bill
- Service Sa
- Sewage Overflows
- Sewerage (Water Management Measures—Use Of Waste Material) Amendment Bill
- Sexual Discrimination
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Shared Services
- 2007-10-18
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2007-10-24
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-11-21
- 2007-11-22
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2008-02-12
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Answers to Questions (1)
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Petitions (1)
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Question Time (1)
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- 2008-02-26
- 2008-02-27
- 2008-02-28
- 2008-03-06
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Shared Services Sa
- Shark Patrols
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Sittings And Business
- Skills Strategy
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Social Development Committee
- Social Development Committee: Gestational Surrogacy
- Social Development Committee: South Australian Certificate Of Education
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Solar Cities Congress
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2008-03-06
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Question Time (2)
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-
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Solar Energy
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2008-06-03
-
Question Time (2)
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-
- Solar Feed-In Laws
- Solar Panel Connectivity
-
Solid Waste Levy
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2007-10-16
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Petitions (3)
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- 2007-10-17
- 2007-10-25
- 2007-11-13
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2007-11-14
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Petitions (2)
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2008-02-12
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CRIMINAL LAW (SENTENCING) (ABOLITION OF SUSPENDED SENTENCES) AMENDMENT BILL
Second Reading
Adjourned debate on second reading.
(Continued from 27 September 2007. Page 936.)
The Hon. R.B. SUCH (Fisher) (10:30): I support this bill, which is a sensible proposal by the member for Mitchell. It does raise the issue of how our criminal justice system is functioning at present. I have to say that I do not believe it is functioning as well as it could or should. Obviously, it does not have much of a deterrent impact on would-be offenders.
I have said publicly on many occasions that nearly every night in Adelaide there are serious breaches of the criminal law. Last night or the night before, whether one is talking about arson, car chases, ramming police cars or whatever, Adelaide is not the place it should be. We have an ageing population, and we know from statistics and data analysis that, in general, breaches of the criminal law are more likely to be committed by the younger section of the population rather than the older section. In Adelaide there should be less crime than is currently the case.
Within the wider community—and I believe I am in touch with my electorate—the feeling is that we do not have a system of criminal justice operating in the state. The system favours the criminal. I do not support capital punishment and other drastic punishments. However, I do support genuine penalties for breaches of the law. I would be happy to see people who commit premeditated brutal killings stay in prison for the term of their natural life. I do not have any problem at all with detaining someone for the term of their natural life if they commit a brutal vicious killing, particularly if it is premeditated.
I saw a television program on Channel 9 on Tuesday night. The show is hosted by Steve Liebmann and it replays terrible crimes committed in Australia. The program on Tuesday night involved a Western Australia situation, where a guy, after consuming drugs and alcohol and being refused sex by a single mother at a party, at 2.30 in the morning brutally killed her teenage son with a tomahawk, then brutally killed her and raped her after he had killed her, and then killed the two daughters aged four and six.
That piece of whatever you want to call him will be eligible for parole in 2013. People will say, 'That is not South Australia.' I am not sure that Western Australia is much different from South Australia and the other states of Australia. We have a wishy-washy approach to people who commit horrendous crimes. In fact, the injuries inflicted by that particular individual were so severe that the Supreme Court judge put a permanent stay on any publication depicting the injuries—although I have a strong suspicion as to what he did with the tomahawk.
I do not believe in South Australia we have it right, either. I do not consider for a moment that someone who butchered four innocent people, simply because the mother refused sexual intercourse, should ever be released. I do not have any problem with that. That person should be detained behind bars for the term of his natural life. What needs to happen—and I keep coming back to this—is that we have to try to steer people away from getting into trouble in the first place; and there needs to be more emphasis on that. A lot of people who end up committing serious crimes have been subjected to horrendous personal incidents. That does not justify their behaviour, but serious rejection, for example, of a child by a parent or parents can have long-term consequences. Sadly, we live in a bizarre society.
Last night while travelling home on the train I talked to a psychologist who works for a commonwealth department. He is dealing with a situation where a family member has been having sexual intercourse with a wombat.
What sort of individuals do we have in our society? He is trying to sort out the problems associated with the family. We have some very sick people out there. I do not see any justification for that sort of behaviour. What we need is a lot more emphasis on keeping people out of the criminal justice system. We have heard a lot about the so-called gang of Aboriginal people getting around town. Not all the law-breakers are Aboriginal—most of them are not, but Aboriginal people are overrepresented in the statistics. A lot of those people cannot read or write. They are unemployable; they have little or no chance of getting a job.
As I have said in this place, I try to keep in contact with what is happening around the whole state, and there are still Aboriginal kids in places such as Murray Bridge who do not go to school, because the system is weak. We do not want to intervene or get too tough on people whose children are not attending school. Why is it that we can go to any of these places on a school day and see kids not at school? They do not have a hope in hell of getting a decent career, getting employment, because essentially they are going to be illiterate and unable to do basic maths.
We need to intervene early. We know that from cases such as the one involving Martin Bryant, the Truro murderer, and others. All the warning signs are there early on in primary school and junior primary school. What does the system do about it? Very little, and some of those people go on to be vicious killers because the system does not deal with the issue. Then we get people released on bail or people out on parole committing serious offences. Our system is soft and ineffective. I do not like to criticise them, but I think that when the perpetrator fronts court with their rent-a-suit and their Sunday-school image, judges and magistrates tend to be more sympathetic to them than to the victim.
I know the present government is doing a lot to assist victims of crime, and I commend it for that. However, you have a system where people use every legal avenue to minimise the impact of a proper sentence upon them. I will keep saying it, but I think the government needs to get a handle on this issue, because if it does not it will bite it at the next state election. The present government used the situation skilfully in the lead-up to 2002, but the wheel will turn if it does not get a handle on what is happening in the wider community.
This is a big sleeper issue out there, and the community is sick and tired of what is going on. Look at the vandalism occurring: beautiful statues were done of the work of Mem Fox (Possum Magic) in Thalassa Park, Aberfoyle Park. Other authors were commemorated in wonderful sculptures, and what has happened? A few weeks ago they were vandalised—smashed to bits already. Members of the community know what happens; they see this behaviour going on and they see no effective action and consequence for those who offend. The Coromandel railway station used to have glass panels—now all smashed; $11,000 worth smashed all in one night. Now we have mesh.
The system is not working the way it should. I do not say it is totally the fault of the state government, but what I do say is that it is totally the government's responsibility to do something about it and fix it. We do not have enough places in which to lock people up, and they should not be in a place where it is just a time out. I would put very tough conditions on people. If you do not want to learn, if you do not want to improve your literacy, you will not get the full benefits that accrue to the standard prisoner.
We need to get fair dinkum. I support this measure from the member for Mitchell as part of a package of trying to deal with a system that is very wobbly.
The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON (Croydon—Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (10:41): Sentencing is not a science: it is an art. It is not a mathematical exercise. The High Court has said that, although some general sentencing standards guide discretion, the human condition of offender and victim is so variable that the sentencing judge must resort ultimately to what has become known as instinctive synthesis, and I refer to Wong v The Queen (2001), AB v The Queen (1998) and Weininger v The Queen (2003). In making these judgments, judges require tools.
These tools may usefully be seen as a range of sentencing options escalating in severity. Section 38 of the Criminal Law (Sentencing) Act contains the option of the suspended sentence. The general nature of the option is common knowledge. The offender is sentenced solemnly to a term of imprisonment and that sentence is then suspended on imposition of a bond with variable conditions. There is a two-stage reasoning process: first, the decision to imprison must be made according to established principles; secondly, the decision must be made not to impose that sentence at once but to suspend it over the head of the offender like Damocles' sword. Suspended sentences were introduced by the Offenders Probation Act Amendment Act (No.2) 1969. It may come as no surprise to members that its introduction was controversial. A crusty conservative magistrate of the day did not like the innovation, and said:
I agree with the view currently prevailing in England that a suspended sentence is really no punishment at all.
We know, of course, that the member for Mitchell does not agree with these views. What the member for Mitchell hopes to achieve counter-intuitively by this bill is fewer people imprisoned in South Australia. The appellate courts did not agree with the magistrate and do not agree. At the time, Chief Justice Bray said:
So, far from being no punishment at all, a suspended sentence is a sentence of imprisonment with all the consequences such a sentence involves on the defendant's record and his future and it is one which can be called automatically into effect on the slightest breach of the bond during its currency. A liability over a period of years to serve an automatic term of imprisonment as a consequence of any proved misbehaviour in the legal sense, however slight, can hardly be described as no punishment.
Those words were uttered in the case of Elliott v Harris in 1976. As is wellknown, however, the mistaken view that a suspended sentence is really just a slap on the wrist has maintained currency and, in some places, suspended sentences have been repealed. But all is not what it seems.
For example, in New South Wales repeal of the section of the Crimes Act dealing with suspended sentences was recommended by the Criminal Law Committee in 1973. The committee expressed a preference for the common law bond system, which was seen as superior to suspended sentence orders in dealing with first time offenders. In 1974 an amended section 558 of the Crimes Act was intended to be a statutory form of the common law bond. Members should note that this bill does not replace suspended sentences with another alternative. But, in any event, New South Wales reintroduced suspended sentences in 2000, in line with the recommendations made by the New South Wales Law Reform Commission. We all know how the member for Mitchell nags me about what he thinks is the need for a law reform commission in South Australia.
Mr Hanna: Yes, a very good idea.
The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: 'A very good idea,' he interjects: however, we have law reform commissions in other states and territories and, on this occasion, the member for Mitchell acts in contradiction of the recommendation of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission. He likes law reform commissions if they recommend what he wants.
More recently, New Zealand removed suspended sentences as a sentencing option with the introduction of the Sentencing Act 2002. Again, unlike the bill before the house, this change was made as part of broader reforms to sentencing and parole, including the replacement of periodic detention and community service with a community work order. Tellingly, though, since the abolition of the order and the introduction of the new sentencing legislation, New Zealand has experienced a gradual increase in the proportion of sentences that are custodial—from 8.2 per cent in 2001, to 8.4 per cent in 2002, and 8.6 per cent in 2003. The change from 2002 to 2003 alone represents about an 8 per cent increase in the number of offenders receiving a custodial sentence—from 7,930 in 2002 to 8,540 in 2003. This is a result we know the member for Mitchell does not want as a former member of the Greens party and a life-long left Liberal on criminal law sentencing.
The removal of suspended sentences as a sentencing option is believed to be one factor that may have contributed to this increase. The honourable member proposing this bill has not told us this, nor has he informed the house how he intends the government to pay for the expensive consequences of increased imprisonment. I know of no member of the assembly who is more ad hominem in his attacks on members than the member for Mitchell. England and Wales have introduced—
Mr HANNA: I object to that, Mr Speaker.
The SPEAKER: Order!
Mr HANNA: That is an absolutely false allegation, and the Attorney-General knows it. He should withdraw it.
The SPEAKER: Order! The member will take his seat when I am on my feet, or I will name him straight away. Does the member have a point of order?
Mr HANNA: Yes, my point of order is the insult just directed at me by the Attorney-General.
The SPEAKER: I do not know what the insult was. Are you saying that the member used unparliamentary language?
Mr HANNA: He is alleging that my preferred form of argument is an ad hominem argument.
The SPEAKER: There is no point of order. The member will have an opportunity to respond at the conclusion of the debate. The Attorney-General.
The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON: One thing I love about the member for Mitchell is that he can dish it out but he can never take it. England and Wales have introduced a new form of suspended sentence order under the Criminal Justice Act 2003. It is true that the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council recommended the abolition of suspended sentences but required them to be phased in as part of a large reform of alternatives to imprisonment, unlike this bill. The council said:
The council's recommendations were not, as many interpreted them, a call for all offenders on suspended sentences to be imprisoned, or an affirmative response to calls for more punitive sentencing. Rather, we sought to find a more creative solution to the problems our consultations uncovered, and to provide a new range of orders that would perform substantially the same function as a suspended sentence and other substitutional sanctions, but that would do so in a different form. We believed then, as we do now, that it is possible to create sentencing orders that 'mean what they say', while also providing courts with a flexible range of orders to enable sentences to be tailored to the offence, the offender, and the purposes of sentencing (whether these are considered to be punishment, deterrence, denunciation, rehabilitation, community protection, or a combination of these purposes).
All of this says that, even if one were to abolish suspended sentences (which I would not), the task is far more complicated and sensitive and thorough than the member for Mitchell's bill.
Time expired.
Mr HANNA (Mitchell) (10:52): The Attorney-General cheapens his argument with ridicule, personal attacks and false allegations. That is not uncommon in the Attorney-General's rebuttal of propositions put by Independent members or the opposition. Nonetheless, when I consider the substantial points that the Attorney-General has made, I appreciate that he has provided a useful survey of interstate jurisdictions. He has provided some additional statistics, but there is nothing there to rebut the points that I made when I proposed this bill.
The fact is that the reasoning process is faulty in general terms when it comes to the way suspended sentences are handed out: it does not satisfy the public. The perception of people walking away without effective punishment is a real one. The Attorney-General has done a good job of representing the views of judges generally, but it really does not address the concerns of the community. I trust that there will be at least substantial support for this proposition. We will test that now.
The house divided on the second reading:
AYES (2)
Hanna, K. (teller) | Such, R.B. |
NOES (34)
Atkinson, M.J. (teller) | Bedford, F.E. | Breuer, L.R. |
Caica, P. | Chapman, V.E. | Ciccarello, V. |
Conlon, P.F. | Evans, I.F. | Foley, K.O. |
Fox, C.C. | Geraghty, R.K. | Griffiths, S.P. |
Gunn, G.M. | Hamilton-Smith, M.L.J. | Hill, J.D. |
Kenyon, T.R. | Kerin, R.G. | Key, S.W. |
Koutsantonis, T. | Lomax-Smith, J.D. | Maywald, K.A. |
O'Brien, M.F. | Penfold, E.M. | Pengilly, M. |
Piccolo, T. | Pisoni, D.G. | Portolesi, G. |
Rau, J.R. | Simmons, L.A. | Stevens, L. |
Venning, I.H. | Weatherill, J.W. | White, P.L. |
Williams, M.R. |
PAIRS (8)
Goldsworthy, M.R. | Rann, M.D. |
McFetridge, D. | Thompson, M.G. |
Pederick, A.S. | Bignell, L.W. |
Redmond, I.M. | Rankine, J.M. |
Majority of 32 for the ayes.
Second reading thus negatived.