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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Minister for Police</name>
      <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000331">
        <heading>MINISTER FOR POLICE</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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          <question date="2011-05-18">
            <name>MINISTER FOR POLICE</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-05-18T14:17:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="1813">Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:17):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Does the Premier have confidence in the Minister for Police's ability to undertake his duties?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="634" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. M.D. RANN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Ramsay</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Economic Development</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Social Inclusion</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Sustainability and Climate Change</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2011-05-18">
            <name>MINISTER FOR POLICE</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-05-18T14:17:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="634">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) (14:17):</by>  A lot more confidence than some of your backbenchers have in you.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000335">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="634">
        <name>The Hon. M.D. RANN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000336">
          <by role="member" id="634">The Hon. M.D. RANN:</by>  I know that Paris meant a lot to her; I know that. She went there and discovered, during her taxpayer-funded overseas trip, that Paris had a Metro (it is an underground railway), so she comes back with this information. Now 45,000 French villages will be created here. We are all waiting for this moment when, of course, we will have an EU subsidy for anyone who owns more than two pigs!</text>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000337">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000338">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order! Point of order. Member for Unley.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124">
        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000339">
          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI:</by>  The Premier was asked whether he had confidence in the police minister, and he has refused to answer. He has refused to say yes.</text>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000340">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000341">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="634">
        <name>The Hon. M.D. RANN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000342">
          <by role="member" id="634">The Hon. M.D. RANN:</by>  I love the fact that she relies on the testimony of Martin Anders, who does in fact have a law degree, even though he is not—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000344">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="634">
        <name>The Hon. M.D. RANN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000345">
          <by role="member" id="634">The Hon. M.D. RANN:</by>  —quite up to the standard of 'The Mullet', or bikie lawyers like Craig Caldicott or David Edwardson.</text>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000346">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000347">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order! Somebody will go out if you keep going like this.</text>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000348">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="619">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201105189e408441cf614a9680000349">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order! Order, members on my right, also!</text>
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