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Commencement
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Parliamentary Committees
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Motions
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Bills
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Parliamentary Procedure
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Parliamentary Committees
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Question Time
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Grievance Debate
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Bills
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POLICE MINISTER, ASSAULT
Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:11): My question is for the Premier. Is it fair that the Minister for Police uses parliamentary privilege to further his personal agenda relating to his alleged assault, when other alleged victims of crime do not have that privilege?
The Hon. M.D. RANN (Ramsay—Premier, Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change) (14:12): He actually had the courage to make his statement outside of parliament and I would have thought that your media monitoring would have picked that up. The fact of the matter is, in terms of parliamentary privilege, there are people who use and abuse the privilege of the courts to smear people, and we have parliamentary privilege where we are required to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Members interjecting:
The SPEAKER: Order! Member for Ashford.
The Hon. P.F. Conlon interjecting:
The SPEAKER: Order, Minister for Transport! Member for Ashford.