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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Correctional Services Officer</name>
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        <heading>CORRECTIONAL SERVICES OFFICER</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="546" kind="question">
        <name>Mr WILLIAMS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">MacKillop</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>CORRECTIONAL SERVICES OFFICER</name>
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          <by role="member" id="546">Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:51): </by> Does the Minister for Correctional Services believe that the corrections officer who has been suspended from his employment with 65 traffic offences is a fit and proper person for employment in the corrections department?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">An honourable member interjecting:</event>
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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 Industry and Trade</name>
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            <name>Minister for Small Business</name>
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            <name>Minister for Correctional Services</name>
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            <name>Minister for Gambling</name>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Industry and Trade, Minister for Small Business, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Gambling) (14:51): </by> I did have a briefing; I have all the information here. The officer in question was suspended from duty for a number of reasons not just, of course, traffic offences.</text>
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        <name>Mr Pisoni</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr Pisoni: </by> That's not enough, of course.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: </by> Members opposite want to try to make as much as they possibly can in relation to me. Of course, they campaigned very strongly in my electorate, and my community rejected their calls not to re-elect me and I was re-elected.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: </by> The point about this officer is that he was stood down for firearms and drug offences. Now, it is slightly different. I noticed that the deputy leader, with his three vote mandate, did not put that into his question, and I wonder why he did not do that?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="526" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. P.F. Conlon</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="526">The Hon. P.F. Conlon: </by> Not relevant.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: </by> Not relevant, really, no. I think that members opposite, rather than trying to embarrass me, might try to get a real answer by asking a real question.</text>
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