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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>TransAdelaide Computer System</name>
      <page num="1598" />
      <text id="2007111499d2f28afb2748d280000474">
        <heading>TRANSADELAIDE COMPUTER SYSTEM</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="631" kind="question">
        <name>Mr HAMILTON-SMITH</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Waite</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2007-11-14">
            <name>TRANSADELAIDE COMPUTER SYSTEM</name>
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          <by role="member" id="631">Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite—Leader of the Opposition) (14:45): </by> As a supplementary question, given that he has just told the house that the system was installed 18 months ago and is still faulty, why has the minister claimed publicly that it is a new computer system?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="526" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. CONLON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Elder</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Transport</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Infrastructure</name>
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            <name>Minister for Energy</name>
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          <question date="2007-11-14">
            <name>TRANSADELAIDE COMPUTER SYSTEM</name>
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          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Energy) (14:45): </by> I have to say—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2007111499d2f28afb2748d280000478">
          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="526">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. CONLON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. CONLON: </by> —that I wish Alexander Downer had asked questions like this this morning! I'm sorry. Okay—</text>
        <text id="2007111499d2f28afb2748d280000480">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">Members interjecting:</event>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2007111499d2f28afb2748d280000481">
          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="526">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. CONLON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2007111499d2f28afb2748d280000482">
          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. CONLON: </by> If the Leader of the Opposition believes that 18 months old is not a new system, I do apologise to him. I have not meant to mislead anyone into thinking that it was younger than 18 months.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">An honourable member interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="526">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. CONLON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2007111499d2f28afb2748d280000484">
          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. CONLON: </by> Well, I know that Greg Kelton thinks there are nine sitting days to go. This is, I think, the fourth or fifth last sitting day they have got for the year, and if this is the best they can do, then bring on Alexander Downer!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="627">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2007111499d2f28afb2748d280000488">
          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order! The member for Little Para.</text>
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