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  <date date="2018-07-25" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Keogh Case</name>
      <text id="20180725d1c8b1ed864c480ca0000659">
        <heading>Keogh Case</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="2018-07-25">
            <name>Keogh Case</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-07-25T14:59:23" />
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          <by role="member" id="633">Mr KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (14:59):</by>  My question is to the Attorney-General. Did the Attorney-General read and consider the findings of the extensive review into the Keogh case undertaken by the then solicitor-general and now Chief Justice, the Hon. Christopher Kourakis SC, and provided to the governor before making an ex gratia payment of $2.57 million to accused murderer Henry Keogh?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Bragg</electorate>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <question date="2018-07-25">
            <name>Keogh Case</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-07-25T14:59:47" />
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          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General) (14:59):</by>  Not that I'm aware of. I'm not exactly sure what document you're even talking about. Could you just reread the first part of the question?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="633">
        <name>Mr KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="633">Mr KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  Sure. Did the Attorney-General read and consider the findings of the extensive review into the Keogh case undertaken by the then solicitor-general and now Chief Justice, the Hon. Christopher Kourakis SC, provided to the then governor before making an ex gratia payment of $2.57 million to accused murderer Henry Keogh?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN:</by>  No. I haven't read any advice that was presented to the former government, and—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="interjection">
        <name>Mr Koutsantonis</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20180725d1c8b1ed864c480ca0000664">
          <by role="member" id="633">Mr Koutsantonis:</by>  That's not what you've told the parliament.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20180725d1c8b1ed864c480ca0000665">
          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN:</by>  Legal advice.</text>
        <text id="20180725d1c8b1ed864c480ca0000666">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="633">Mr Koutsantonis interjecting:</event>
        </text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20180725d1c8b1ed864c480ca0000667">
          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN:</by>  Legal advice.</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>
        <text id="20180725d1c8b1ed864c480ca0000669">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1804" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20180725d1c8b1ed864c480ca0000670">
          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN:</by>  No, no, sorry. I have not read advice to the previous government in respect of anything that prior solicitors-general have presented to the former governor. I'm assuming this was advice given 15 years ago, but if we're talking about the same document then, no, I haven't read it.</text>
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