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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="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001109">
        <heading>Child Protection</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="question">
        <name>Ms CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2016-03-09">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-03-09T14:39:38" />
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          <timeStamp time="2016-03-09T14:39:38" />
          <by role="member" id="1804">Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:39):</by>  A further supplementary: why wasn't there a published statement via the government as to the extension of the time and the extra cost, as the government did on the nuclear industry royal commission?</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>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Justice Reform</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Planning</name>
          </portfolio>
          <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>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2016-03-09">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-03-09T14:39:55" />
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001111">
          <timeStamp time="2016-03-09T14:39:55" />
          <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) (14:39):</by>  I actually do not know the answer as to why a particular communication strategy was chosen or not. We certainly were not intending to hide Commissioner Nyland in a cupboard for the next six months. We were not trying to pretend that we were not doing it. If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition sees some difference in the methodology of this and the—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="1810" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.R. RAU</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001113">
          <by role="member" id="1810">The Hon. J.R. RAU:</by>  There was certainly no plan to—</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="interjection">
        <name>Ms Chapman</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001114">
          <by role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman:</by>  The date just slipped out on her website.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1810" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.R. RAU</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001115">
          <by role="member" id="1810">The Hon. J.R. RAU:</by>  I do not know whether it slipped out on her website or it slipped out of a press release from our office; I do not know.</text>
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001116">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001117">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The deputy leader is on two warnings, as is the member for Unley.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1810" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.R. RAU</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1810">The Hon. J.R. RAU:</by>  There is certainly no secret about it. If I remember correctly, in the latter part of last year I might have foreshadowed in answers to questions here in the chamber that it appeared likely that there would be an extension required.</text>
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001119">
          <event kind="interjection">An honourable member interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="1810" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.R. RAU</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1810">The Hon. J.R. RAU:</by>  Yes. I have never run away from the fact that if she was not finished, we would have to give her more time.</text>
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001121">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4847">Mr Knoll interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20160309c4d7d09f16c44e26b0001122">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Schubert is warned for the second and final time. The member for Giles.</text>
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