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  <date date="2009-03-05" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)</sessionName>
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    <name>Personal Explanation</name>
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      <heading>Personal Explanation</heading>
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      <name>Member's Remarks</name>
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        <heading>MEMBER'S REMARKS</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="531" kind="speech">
        <name>The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Croydon</electorate>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Justice</name>
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            <name>Minister for Multicultural Affairs</name>
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            <name>Minister for Veterans' Affairs</name>
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          <by role="member" id="531">The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON (Croydon—Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Veterans' Affairs) (11:41): </by> I claim to have been misrepresented and seek leave to make a personal explanation.</text>
        <text id="20090305708a01e2555b4022a0000169">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="531">The Hon. M.J. ATKINSON:</by>  In another place yesterday the Hon. R.D. Lawson said in reference to my reply to a question on notice in the house on Tuesday:</text>
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          <inserted>The Attorney used the occasion to make gratuitously offensive remarks about Channel 7 and the producer of the <term>Today Tonight</term> program, Graham Archer.</inserted>
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        <text continued="true" id="20090305708a01e2555b4022a0000172">I have read the entire <term>Hansard</term> report from question time on Tuesday and there is no reference in it to Graham Archer or the Executive Producer of the <term>Today Tonight</term> program. The <term>Today Tonight</term> reporter who broke the Terry Norman Stephens stories was Rohan Wenn, and I made no criticism of him, either. Indeed, I quoted his remarks about the member for Schubert at length.</text>
        <text id="20090305708a01e2555b4022a0000173">I ask the Hon. R.D. Lawson to correct the record in the other place and to apologise for deliberately misleading it.</text>
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