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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Law and Order Issues Postcard</name>
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        <heading>LAW AND ORDER ISSUES POSTCARD</heading>
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        <name>Ms CHAPMAN</name>
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        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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            <name>LAW AND ORDER ISSUES POSTCARD</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1804">Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg) (15:14):</by>  If the Attorney-General has finished, I have a supplementary, sir. Will taxpayers have to bear the cost of the Attorney-General's defence if he is prosecuted for aiding and abetting the commission of a serious commonwealth offence?</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="531" kind="answer">
        <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 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) (15:15):</by>  I have seen the card concerned. I believe it has gone to tens of thousands of households and many people have responded to express their disagreement with the Leader of the Opposition's position. The Leader of the Opposition, of course, adopts the member for Flinders' position that sending members of the Gang of 49 into youth detention is a breach of their human rights.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="43">Mrs Penfold interjecting:</event>
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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>  I'm sorry? The response has been so overwhelming and is creating such an outstanding and useful debate that I have requested, in my capacity as the member for Croydon, some surplus copies of the card and I intend to circularise it in my own electorate—of course, in hand-addressed envelopes. I can tell the member for Stuart that, if there are some left over, I am willing to share them with him.</text>
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