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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Police Commissioner</name>
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        <heading>Police Commissioner</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="question">
        <name>Mr MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Croydon</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2018-05-16">
            <name>Police Commissioner</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5084">Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:09):</by>  A supplementary question: minister, are there any operational decisions that this police commissioner has made recently that the minister does not support?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018051649943e0f717d4406a0000336">
          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER:</by>  Point of order, sir: the leader has just asked the same question twice in a row. He doesn't get to do that.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I will hear the answer. Minister.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER  Order!</by>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Members will not interject. The minister has the call.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The minister has the call. Minister.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4843" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.L. WINGARD</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Gibson</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Police</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Recreation</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-05-16T14:10:11" />
        <text id="2018051649943e0f717d4406a0000344">
          <timeStamp time="2018-05-16T14:10:11" />
          <by role="member" id="4843">The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (14:10):</by>  Thank you, Mr Speaker. As I said in my previous answer to a very similar question, I have conversations with the police commissioner all the time. We talk about different matters of operation and policy. We have a very open dialogue and we talk through all these issues. It is a very, very professional relationship—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER  Order!</by>
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        <name>The Hon. C.L. WINGARD</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4843">The Hon. C.L. WINGARD:</by>  —and we look forward to working with the commissioner into the future to deliver again on all of our policies.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER  Order!</by> The member for Waite.</text>
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