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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Child Protection</name>
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        <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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            <name>Child Protection</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:44):</by>  My question is to the Premier. When will the government—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Deputy Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The DEPUTY SPEAKER:</by>  Order! I want to hear the leader's question, please.</text>
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        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL:</by>  You would do well to listen to this one; it is a very important question, Deputy Speaker.</text>
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        <name>The Deputy Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The DEPUTY SPEAKER:</by>  I will take that warning to heart.</text>
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        <name>Mr MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">Mr MARSHALL:</by>  When will the government appoint a dedicated, focused minister for child protection and ensure that there is only one minister in charge of this important portfolio?</text>
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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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          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier) (14:44):</by>  Of course, at the moment we are in a phase where we are implementing the reforms that will be received when we receive the final report of Commissioner Nyland. It is appropriate that the current arrangements stay in place for that period. Once the reforms have been implemented, we will give some further consideration to the disposition of the child protection portfolio and I do imagine that it will revert to a single minister once the reform process has been concluded.</text>
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