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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Trading Hours</name>
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        <heading>TRADING HOURS</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>TRADING HOURS</name>
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          <by role="member" id="546">Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:34):</by>  A further supplementary question, Madam Speaker: what did the Premier mean when he told the house that serious questions deserve serious answers?</text>
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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> If I accept that question, I will accept it as a question, not a supplementary.</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) (14:34):</by>  Madam Speaker, I am prepared to talk all day and all night about this issue, because you are on the wrong side of this debate. The people out there have spoken on this issue; they spoke last Monday when they were in that mall enjoying their shopping hours. The working people of South Australia have spoken.</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! Point of order.</text>
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        <name>Mr WILLIAMS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="546">Mr WILLIAMS:</by>  Madam Speaker, we had this debate last night. I have asked the Premier a serious question; I am expecting a serious answer. Is he capable of doing it or not?</text>
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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> There was no point of order there.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1812">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  This does seem to be an invitation for me to provide a serious answer, and the serious answer is this: we are on the side of the working people of South Australia. Those opposite—</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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        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  —are constitutionally incapable of seeing things from the perspective of working people.</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! Sit down, both of you.</text>
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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! We will move on to the next question. The member for Torrens.</text>
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