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  <date date="2013-07-03" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Child Protection Inquiry</name>
      <text id="201307037e64e08afa3f4abba0000431">
        <heading>CHILD PROTECTION INQUIRY</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="question">
        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Norwood</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2013-07-03">
            <name>CHILD PROTECTION INQUIRY</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Norwood—Leader of the Opposition) (14:34):</by>  My supplementary is to the Premier: given his response to the last two questions and his comments made in the media on 2 November last year that it beggars belief that he was not told, can he inform the parliament what disciplinary action he has taken, or contemplates taking, against the two ministerial advisers who failed to inform him about the contents that were the subject of the Debelle inquiry?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="7">Ms Chapman interjecting:</event>
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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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for State Development</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Public Sector</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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        <startTime time="2013-07-03T14:35:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Treasurer, Minister for State Development, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for the Arts) (14:35):</by>  I have spoken to both of the advisers and told them that what they did was a mistake—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201307037e64e08afa3f4abba0000436">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  —and an unacceptable mistake, and they both accept that. Both of them, as is appropriate, endured the public censure that is associated with making a mistake of that sort. Both of them understand the full force of Mr Debelle's observations. My judgement is that it was an isolated mistake and—</text>
        <text id="201307037e64e08afa3f4abba0000437">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201307037e64e08afa3f4abba0000438">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  —and they have been excellent servants, not only of myself, but also of the state.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3123">
        <name>The Chair</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201307037e64e08afa3f4abba0000439">
          <by role="member" id="3123">The CHAIR: </by> Before the Leader continues, I warn the member for Heysen for the second and final time; I call the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to order; and I warn the member for Unley for the first time, having been called to order twice.</text>
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