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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2019-07-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>State Opera South Australia</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>State Opera South Australia</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="2019-06-05" qonNum="882">
            <name>State Opera South Australia</name>
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          <inserted>882 <by role="member" id="5376">Ms STINSON (Badcoe)</by> (5 June 2019).  What reasons, if any, has State Opera South Australia provided to the Premier for a former employee retaining cheque signatory authorisation for State Opera South Australia after their departure?</inserted>
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      <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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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <question date="2019-06-05" qonNum="882">
            <name>State Opera South Australia</name>
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            <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>State Opera South Australia has advised that the board did not update its cheque signatory authorisation in error. This error was corrected following the audit and prior to the publication of Report 4 of 2019—Update to the Annual Report.</inserted>
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          <inserted>There was no evidence that this authorisation was used by the former employee after they left.</inserted>
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