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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council</name>
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        <heading>Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4622" kind="question">
        <name>Dr CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Port Adelaide</electorate>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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            <name>Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:59):</by> My question is to the Minister for Environment and Water. Who were the public servants who accompanied the minister into the room in the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council meeting on 14 December?</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 leader and the Deputy Premier are warned. The minister has the call.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4847">The Hon. S.K. Knoll 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 for Transport is warned. The Minister for Environment and Water has the call.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4837" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Black</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Environment and Water</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-02-12T14:59:46" />
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          <by role="member" id="4837">The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Minister for Environment and Water) (14:59):</by>  It is all very confusing today. The buck stops with me. I am the minister. I will not be talking about the conduct of public servants today. I am the minister, and I will not be discussing which public servants I worked with along the way.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5389">Mr Boyer 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 member for Wright is warned for a second time.</text>
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