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      <name>Local Government Informal Gatherings</name>
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        <heading>Local Government Informal Gatherings</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3118" kind="question">
        <name>Mr GRIFFITHS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Goyder</electorate>
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            <name>Local Government Informal Gatherings</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3118">Mr GRIFFITHS (Goyder) (14:28):</by>  Supplementary: the minister refers to ample time for comment to be made, but he has gazetted actual regulations. The implementation is later this month, but it will be the ones that you have put in the <term>Gazette</term>, minister, so there is no consultation opportunity.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3533" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.G. BROCK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Frome</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Regional Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Local Government</name>
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          <question date="2016-11-03">
            <name>Local Government Informal Gatherings</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3533">The Hon. G.G. BROCK (Frome—Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Local Government) (14:28):</by>  Can I ask the member for Goyder whether he is talking about the informal meetings? We just gazetted some stuff here. In regard to the informal meetings, that went on through the Local Government Act. If I can just read through <term>Hansard</term>, I will not quote it, but in the conversation about that we made comment about open transparency and having meetings in the open, and the member for Goyder agreed with everything we were doing. It is on <term>Hansard</term>. He agreed with transparency and things like that. We have gone back on many, many occasions, and I have written to each of the mayors on three occasions explaining what we wanted. They did not do what we wanted, so I brought the regulations in.</text>
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