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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Commissioner for Public Employment</name>
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        <heading>Commissioner for Public Employment</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="563" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. I.F. EVANS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Davenport</electorate>
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          <question date="2014-05-06">
            <name>Commissioner for Public Employment</name>
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          <by role="member" id="563">The Hon. I.F. EVANS (Davenport) (16:09):</by>  A supplementary. Why can't the minister give the house a guarantee that it will be advertised and there will be an open, merit-based appointment process for that position?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Manufacturing</name>
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            <name>Minister for the Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2014-05-06">
            <name>Commissioner for Public Employment</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Manufacturing, Innovation and Trade, Minister for the Public Sector) (16:09):</by>  I will take advice on the most appropriate ways in order to undertake a merit-based approach to determination. I know that advertisement is not the only way to do that, for example.</text>
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