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  <date date="2008-02-27" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>WorkCover Corporation</name>
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        <heading>WORKCOVER CORPORATION</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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            <name>WORKCOVER CORPORATION</name>
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          <by role="member" id="631">Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite—Leader of the Opposition) (14:25):</by>  My question is for the Premier. Did the member for Mount Gambier and the member for Chaffey, as members of the Labor cabinet, participate in the vote which recommended to the ALP caucus changes to WorkCover legislation? Was their vote decisive and was their role conveyed to the Labor caucus?</text>
        <text id="20080227c553210fb95c476ca0000361">Documents leaked to the opposition from within Labor's caucus include two second reading speeches for two bills to be introduced tomorrow regarding the government's plans and a briefing paper considered yesterday and today by Labor members. The opposition understands that the members for Chaffey and Mount Gambier were involved in cabinet briefings and approvals of those bills and papers.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <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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      <talker role="member" id="634" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. M.D. RANN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Ramsay</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Economic Development</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Social Inclusion</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change</name>
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        <startTime time="2008-02-27T14:26:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="634">The Hon. M.D. RANN (Ramsay—Premier, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change) (14:26):</by>  This is breaking news. We were just asked whether the member for Chaffey and the member for Mount Gambier participated in the caucus decision. They are not members of the Labor caucus. They are not members of the Labor Party.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="634" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. M.D. RANN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="634">The Hon. M.D. RANN:</by>  He said 'caucus'.</text>
        <text id="20080227c553210fb95c476ca0000367">
          <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="20080227c553210fb95c476ca0000368">
          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="634">
        <name>The Hon. M.D. RANN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="634">The Hon. M.D. RANN:</by>  Let me give him the benefit of the doubt. Did they participate in the cabinet decision? Yes, because they are cabinet ministers.</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="20080227c553210fb95c476ca0000371">
          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="9">The Hon. P.F. Conlon interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:  </by>The Minister for Transport will come to order!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="56">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! I should not have to call for order more than once.</text>
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