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  <date date="2018-11-28" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Government Members, Crossing the Floor</name>
      <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000725">
        <heading>Government Members, Crossing the Floor</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-11-28">
            <name>Government Members, Crossing the Floor</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-11-28T14:29:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (14:29):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000728">
          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  You've been busy.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000729">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000730">
          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  When did the minister first learn that four of his colleagues would cross the floor and vote with the opposition to adjourn the debate on his mining bill?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4343">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000731">
          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER:</by>  Point of order: that reflects on a vote.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000732">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  That does reflect on a vote of the house.</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="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000734">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
        <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000735">
          <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="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000736">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The Minister for Industry is warned. I will swing back to the member for West Torrens.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000737">
          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS:</by>  I made no comment on the vote, sir; I simply asked when he was first informed.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="2018112845e39a89a2fd44bba0000738">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Yes, but I have taken that to be within the remit of reflecting on a vote of the house. I ask the member for West Torrens to move on to another question, please.</text>
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