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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Police Minister, Assault</name>
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        <heading>POLICE MINISTER, ASSAULT</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1813" kind="question">
        <name>Mrs REDMOND</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Heysen</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>POLICE MINISTER, ASSAULT</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1813">Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:54):</by>  My question is to the Attorney-General. Is the Attorney-General concerned that the dropping of one of the assault cases involving the police minister will discourage future victims from pursuing justice because of the impression that an error in identification will be fatal to their case, even when the alleged assailant has self-identified by handing himself into police?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order! That is an unusual question. Attorney-General.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1810" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.R. RAU</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Enfield</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Justice</name>
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            <name>Minister for Urban Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Tourism</name>
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            <name>Minister for Food Marketing</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1810">The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Urban Development, Planning and the City of Adelaide, Minister for Tourism, Minister for Food Marketing) (14:55): </by> I am not sure it was a question so much as an opportunity to make a statement. As I understand it, the normal procedures were gone through and a result come to. That should not be a concern for other citizens, and I think that probably is as far as I can go in answering that question.</text>
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