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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Ministerial Code of Conduct</name>
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        <heading>MINISTERIAL CODE OF CONDUCT</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>MINISTERIAL CODE OF CONDUCT</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1813">Mrs REDMOND (Heysen—Leader of the Opposition) (14:32):</by>  My question is again to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Did the minister breach the Ministerial Code of Conduct when he asked the health department specifically to prepare material for the minister's use in the election during the caretaker period of the last state election?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="535" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Ageing</name>
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            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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          <question date="2012-05-02">
            <name>MINISTERIAL CODE OF CONDUCT</name>
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          <by role="member" id="535">The Hon. J.D. HILL (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts) (14:32):</by>  I don't believe so and I don't believe I have breached the United Nations code of conduct, the World Health Organisation's code of conduct or any other person's code of conduct.</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.D. HILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="535">The Hon. J.D. HILL:</by>  I am entirely entitled, as a minister in a government, to ask my department questions of fact, which is what I did.</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! Member for MacKillop, order! Member for Taylor.</text>
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