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  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Police Staffing</name>
      <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000535">
        <heading>Police Staffing</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4342" kind="question">
        <name>Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Stuart</electorate>
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          <question date="2016-03-08">
            <name>Police Staffing</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-03-08T15:07:35" />
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          <by role="member" id="4342">Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart) (15:07):</by>  Supplementary: given the Premier's answer, can he confirm to the house his original commitment that the 313 net additional officers will be sworn police officers, excluding civilians and excluding cadets at the academy?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1812" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Cheltenham</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Premier</name>
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        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2016-03-08">
            <name>Police Staffing</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-03-08T15:07:53" />
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000537">
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          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier) (15:07):</by>  I forget what the original commitment was, but we will be—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="3124">Mr Pisoni interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000539">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Unley is warned for the second and final time.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1812" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000540">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  It doesn't sit within my portfolio, but the commitment that was made will be honoured, and I don't know whether the gloss that the—</text>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000541">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall interjecting:</event>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1812" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000542">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  You need to actually compare notes. I know that those opposite don't talk—</text>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000543">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4343">Mr Gardner interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000544">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Morialta is on the edge.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1812" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000545">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  Mr Speaker, those opposite need to compare notes. I was being asked about whether we were going to keep an election commitment, not whether—</text>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000546">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603085876a5250da0411290000547">
          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL:</by>  Don't tidy it up for him. It's embarrassing. We will keep the commitment that we made.</text>
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