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  <date date="2018-05-16" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Grandparents for Grandchildren SA</name>
      <text id="20180516bc8936fafdee420880000518">
        <heading>Grandparents for Grandchildren SA</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5376" kind="question">
        <name>Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Badcoe</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-05-16">
            <name>Grandparents for Grandchildren SA</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-05-16T14:41:38" />
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          <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (14:41):</by>  A supplementary, Mr Speaker—</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  A supplementary.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4847" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. S.K. Knoll</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20180516bc8936fafdee420880000521">
          <by role="member" id="4847">The Hon. S.K. Knoll:</by>  She wants to dig deeper.</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 Schubert is called to order.</text>
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        <name>Ms STINSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON:</by>  —has the Minister for Child Protection received about six requests from Grandparents for Grandchildren to meet with her?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4340" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R. SANDERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Child Protection</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-05-16T14:41:56" />
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          <by role="member" id="4340">The Hon. R. SANDERSON (Adelaide—Minister for Child Protection) (14:41):</by>  As I stated in my—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order, members on my right! The minister will be heard in silence. Minister.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4340" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. R. SANDERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4340">The Hon. R. SANDERSON:</by>  As I stated in my previous answer, because of the tender process that was entered into by the former government, it was inappropriate, while that process was underway, for me to meet with either of the two people who had put in tenders. I was waiting for the department to make a decision, and for that decision to be made public, before I could meet with either so as not to jeopardise a tender process.</text>
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