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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Port Adelaide By-Election</name>
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        <heading>PORT ADELAIDE BY-ELECTION</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="2012-02-14">
            <name>PORT ADELAIDE BY-ELECTION</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1813">Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (15:03):</by>  My question is again to the Premier. Given that then minister Weatherill called upon then deputy premier Foley to step down following an 8.4 per cent swing against state Labor at the 2010 election, will Premier Weatherill now step down following a further 9.8 per cent swing against state Labor in the Port Adelaide by-election?</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!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1812" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Cheltenham</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Minister for State Development) (15:03):</by>  Madam Speaker, this really, I think, amounts to what is the problem for the opposition. I hate to give them some advice, but the idea of recycling yesterday's news or last week's news and just repeating it in a very loud voice is no substitute for public policy development. It is no substitute for participating in the political debate. Let me just give you—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="9">The Hon. P.F. Conlon interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="1812" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2012021490053e7c8c234323a0000916">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  That's right. I do remember the transition from the last leader of the opposition, but one, but two, but three.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. Snelling</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2012021490053e7c8c234323a0000917">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. Snelling:</by>  It's hard to count.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1812" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2012021490053e7c8c234323a0000918">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  It's hard to remember that spectacular result in Frome. Madam Speaker, I think—</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>
        <text id="2012021490053e7c8c234323a0000920">
          <by role="member" id="619">The SPEAKER:  </by>Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1812">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2012021490053e7c8c234323a0000921">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  Madam Speaker, if I can get to the gravamen of the question, it seems to be, 'Are you disappointed with winning Port Adelaide?' The answer is no.</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! The member for Light.</text>
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