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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Cabinet Documents</name>
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        <heading>Cabinet Documents</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4847" kind="question">
        <name>Mr KNOLL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Schubert</electorate>
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            <name>Cabinet Documents</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-11-01T14:04:35" />
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          <by role="member" id="4847">Mr KNOLL (Schubert) (14:04):</by>  Supplementary: can the Premier confirm whether he has read page 1 of the Executive Summary of the Auditor-General's Report that was released last week, where the Auditor-General states very clearly that there has been a change of government policy that is going to make his work a lot more difficult into the future?</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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          <question date="2016-11-01">
            <name>Cabinet Documents</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-11-01T14:04:50" />
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          <by role="member" id="1812">The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier) (14:04):</by>  I don't think that's a fair understanding of what the Auditor-General said. I think what the Auditor-General acknowledges is that it was a short cut, frankly, for him to look at cabinet documents because they represent quite a neat summary, but what they also do is intrude upon cabinet confidentiality.</text>
        <text id="201611017d9471fb164649a780000610">So, sure, do investigators want to get hold of everything they can get their hands on? Absolutely. Are there other interests that need to be protected, à la cabinet confidentiality? Yes. Do they have precedence in our system of government? Yes. Let's just be honest with each other for a moment: if those opposite were in government, they would be claiming precisely the same confidentiality for cabinet deliberations.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. P. Caica</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1802">The Hon. P. Caica:</by>  Unless someone was giving them to us.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Colton is warned. Supplementary, deputy leader.</text>
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