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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Premier and Cabinet Department</name>
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        <heading>Premier and Cabinet Department</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="question">
        <name>Mr KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-06-07">
            <name>Premier and Cabinet Department</name>
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          <by role="member" id="633">Mr KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (15:00):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Can the Premier rule out having ever instructed, asked or inferred to Ruth Ambler on the removal of any public servants from the Department of the Premier and Cabinet who held substantive roles within that agency?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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          <question date="2018-06-07">
            <name>Premier and Cabinet Department</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (15:00):</by>  As I have said, I will be quite clear on this because—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="633">Mr Koutsantonis interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —until I became the Premier—</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 West Torrens is on two warnings.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —and certainly at any time up to and including that meeting, I had never met anybody in the cabinet office. In fact, the only person I had ever met who was in the cabinet office was the former member for Bright and now the Minister for Environment and Water in South Australia.</text>
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