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  <date date="2009-04-29" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Driving Record</name>
      <text id="20090429743a61d7be61416890000563">
        <heading>DRIVING RECORD</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Unley</electorate>
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          <question date="2009-04-29">
            <name>DRIVING RECORD</name>
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        <startTime time="2009-04-29T14:51:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:51): </by> My question is to the Minister for Correctional Services. Were the minister's public statements on ABC Radio on 20 April 2009 about his history of traffic offences truthful? On that date the minister told ABC Radio program presenter Matthew Abraham that there were no offences other than the 32 revealed in the <term>Sunday Mail</term>. Mr Abraham asked: 'And are there more offences?' The member said, 'I don't think there are but we're going to check. If there are, there will be full disclosure. I'm not trying to hide anything.' Mr Abraham said, 'There's talk of, what, another dozen?' The member for West Torrens said, 'No'—</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="526">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. CONLON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20090429743a61d7be61416890000565">
          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. CONLON: </by> Sir, I rise on a point of order. The lengthy recitation of a radio interview is not necessary to explain the question.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20090429743a61d7be61416890000566">
          <by role="member" id="627">The SPEAKER:</by>  Yes; I think the question is pretty self-explanatory.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Correctional Services</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Gambling</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Youth</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Volunteers</name>
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            <name>Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs</name>
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        <startTime time="2009-04-29T14:52:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Gambling, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers, Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (14:52): </by> I will get a copy of my ministerial statement and read it to the member for Unley personally. I have made a comprehensive statement to the parliament.</text>
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