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  <date date="2012-05-29" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
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  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Ceduna Transitional Accommodation Centre</name>
      <text id="20120529b82d35b45059456ab0000378">
        <heading>CEDUNA TRANSITIONAL ACCOMMODATION CENTRE</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Ms CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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          <question date="2012-05-29">
            <name>CEDUNA TRANSITIONAL ACCOMMODATION CENTRE</name>
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        <text id="20120529b82d35b45059456ab0000379">In reply to <by role="member" id="1804">Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg)</by> (9 June 2011) (First Session).</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="614" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M. RANKINE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Wright</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Police</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Correctional Services</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Emergency Services</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Road Safety</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Multicultural Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2012-05-29">
            <name>CEDUNA TRANSITIONAL ACCOMMODATION CENTRE</name>
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        <text id="20120529b82d35b45059456ab0000380">
          <by role="member" id="614">The Hon. J.M. RANKINE (Wright—Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety, Minister for Multicultural Affairs):</by>  The Minister for Social Housing has been advised: </text>
        <text id="20120529b82d35b45059456ab0000381">As at 12 January 2012, no deaths have occurred at the Wangka Willurrara Transitional Accommodation Centre (WWTAC) since it opened in September 2003.</text>
        <text id="20120529b82d35b45059456ab0000382">The recent Coronial Inquest into six deaths of Aboriginal people that have occurred since the WWTAC opened confirms that these deaths did not occur at the WWTAC facility.</text>
        <text id="20120529b82d35b45059456ab0000383">The findings of the Coroner's investigation were delivered on 4 November 2011. In his findings, the Coroner did not attribute any responsibility to the WWTAC facility and specifically recommended 'that the WWTAC facility continue to be maintained as an accommodation centre for transient Aboriginal persons'.</text>
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