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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2007-11-14" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Train Derailment</name>
      <text id="20071114939d637ac9cd45b880000541">
        <heading>TRAIN DERAILMENT</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>TRAIN DERAILMENT</name>
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        <startTime time="2007-11-14T14:58:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="631">Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite—Leader of the Opposition) (14:58):</by>  Did any injuries occur and have any claims for compensation been made to the government as a result of the train derailment on 27 September?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="526" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. CONLON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Elder</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Transport</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Infrastructure</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Energy</name>
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          <question date="2007-11-14">
            <name>TRAIN DERAILMENT</name>
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        <text id="20071114939d637ac9cd45b880000543">
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          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Energy) (14:58):</by>  It is my understanding that there were some minor injuries. Whether or not there have been claims for compensation, I do not know. I have been on the record deeply regretting that outcome—we do not want it to happen; we never want it to happen. But I will go back to something you said in your hyperactive dishonesty yesterday about 100 injuries. I will provide the house later with the details of those 100 injuries because, from memory, I think only two of them could be described as anything other than extremely minor. I also have to say that they compare favourably with your last term of government. In the last few years of your term of government, there were actually more door incidents than there are now.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="532" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.O. Foley</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20071114939d637ac9cd45b880000544">
          <by role="member" id="532">The Hon. K.O. Foley:</by>  Oh, really?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="526" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. CONLON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20071114939d637ac9cd45b880000545">
          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. CONLON:</by>  Yes. What we need—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="interjection">
        <name>An honourable member</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20071114939d637ac9cd45b880000546">
          <by role="member" id="627">An honourable member: </by> Was that 'door' or 'jaw'?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="526" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. CONLON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20071114939d637ac9cd45b880000547">
          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. CONLON:</by>  Jaw, yes. What we need is an opposition that is prepared to deal with basic honesty about these questions, and I repeat what I have said. Since the members for Davenport and Frome have gone, the standard of honesty in the opposition has plummeted.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1804">
        <name>Ms CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20071114939d637ac9cd45b880000548">
          <by role="member" id="1804">Ms CHAPMAN:</by>  I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. That was a direct reflection on members of the house, and I ask that it be withdrawn and apologised for.</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>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order! It was not a personal reflection, but it was debate and the member is out of order. I call the Leader of the Opposition.</text>
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