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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Economic and Business Growth Fund

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:27): A supplementary arising from the answer.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Hunter, please show some respect to your own front bench.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Ridgway, you are not assisting. You are a minister. The Hon. Mr Hunter, you are not helping me either. The Hon. Ms Scriven.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: Given the—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Can the members of the opposition benches show respect for their own frontbencher. I cannot hear the Hon. Ms Scriven's question.

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN: Our teamwork is overflowing. Given the government has already taken 7 per cent of this fund, will the government introduce a cap on how much funding government will take from this fund, which is intended for private sector entities?

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (14:27): I thank the honourable member for her supplementary. No; we will administer the fund and invest it in the sectors or the businesses that we as a cabinet see fit to grow our state's economy, to lift it out of the doldrums that we inherited—some of the lowest growth in the state's history.

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