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  <date date="2016-03-09" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Child Protection</name>
      <text id="201603099daa7dc0df364b02b0001020">
        <heading>Child Protection</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="question">
        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2016-03-09">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-03-09T14:21:48" />
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:21):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Education and Child Development. Does the current minister agree with Mr Waterford that under the former minister, some Families SA staff were 'verging on incompetent to the point of impacting on the agency's capacity to fulfil its mandate to protect children in South Australia'?</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603099daa7dc0df364b02b0001023">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Unley is warned.</text>
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        <name>Mr Marshall</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603099daa7dc0df364b02b0001024">
          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall:</by>  How on earth could you be responsible for this? This is a line of responsibility.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1810" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.R. RAU</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Enfield</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Justice Reform</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Planning</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Child Protection Reform</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Public Sector</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Consumer and Business Services</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the City of Adelaide</name>
          </portfolio>
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        <startTime time="2016-03-09T14:22:10" />
        <text id="201603099daa7dc0df364b02b0001025">
          <timeStamp time="2016-03-09T14:22:10" />
          <by role="member" id="1810">The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (14:22):</by>  No; I just want to—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="interjection">
        <name>Mr Marshall</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603099daa7dc0df364b02b0001026">
          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall:</by>  How is this a reform issue?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603099daa7dc0df364b02b0001027">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The leader is called to order.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.R. RAU</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201603099daa7dc0df364b02b0001028">
          <by role="member" id="1810">The Hon. J.R. RAU:</by>  Mr Speaker, I don't think it is appropriate for me or the minister to be giving a running commentary about the thoughts that may or may not have been in the mind of the former minister, as reflected through the evidence given by Mr Waterford.</text>
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