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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>City of Onkaparinga</name>
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        <heading>City of Onkaparinga</heading>
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        <name>Mr PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Unley</electorate>
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            <name>City of Onkaparinga</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3124">Mr PISONI (Unley) (15:01):</by>  Supplementary question: how can residents take action against what they believe are inappropriate decisions of the council if they are done in camera?</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="2017-02-16">
            <name>City of Onkaparinga</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3533">The Hon. G.G. BROCK (Frome—Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Local Government) (15:02):</by>  Additionally, under the Local Government Act 1999, as the shadow minister would be aware, remuneration information for CEOs and other council staff is freely available to the public through the Register of Salaries that councils are required to maintain and provide access to through their principal office. Information must be declared on a council's salary register, which includes the salary or the classification level covered by an award for each staff member and details of other allowances and benefits payable or paid or provided for the benefit of each employee.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="614">The Hon. J.M. Rankine interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. G.G. BROCK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3533">The Hon. G.G. BROCK:</by>  Again, it is important that the sector has confidence in an understanding of the constituent's benefit.</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 Wright is on two warnings.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. G.G. BROCK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3533">The Hon. G.G. BROCK:</by>  Again, I will go back: regulations have been made, and if people have an issue with the council not being open and transparent, they can go through the Ombudsman and make the complaint.</text>
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