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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>School Absenteeism</name>
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        <heading>School Absenteeism</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="question">
        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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          <question date="2016-09-28">
            <name>School Absenteeism</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-09-28T14:40:25" />
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          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:40):</by>  I refer again to the minister's previous answer in which she identified that there is one case before the courts of a parent being prosecuted and two under consideration. Can the minister please clarify this figure, given that in public she has identified two prosecutions before the courts? Has a case been withdrawn?</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 Education and Child Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Higher Education and Skills</name>
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          <question date="2016-09-28">
            <name>School Absenteeism</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Minister for Education and Child Development, Minister for Higher Education and Skills) (14:40):</by>  No, it's that one has gone ahead. So, there were two. There are now three altogether; one has gone ahead. We have issued whatever the—</text>
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        <name>Mr Gardner</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr Gardner:</by>  But only one has gone ahead?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.E. CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">The Hon. S.E. CLOSE:</by>  One has gone ahead at present, the second one is in the pipeline and the third one has come to our attention.</text>
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