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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Liberal Party, Sexual Assault Allegations</name>
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        <heading>Liberal Party, Sexual Assault Allegations</heading>
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        <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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          <question date="2019-08-01">
            <name>Liberal Party, Sexual Assault Allegations</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:22):</by>  My question is to the Attorney-General. Does the Attorney-General rule out knowing who the assailant is that Ms Potter has made complaints about in the media?</text>
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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="2019-08-01">
            <name>Liberal Party, Sexual Assault Allegations</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General) (14:22):</by>  I don't think I can add anything further to this. I'm not going to be providing a discussion in relation to any information that has come to me in relation to this matter or any other matter in relation to members of parliament who have raised these issues in the past, so—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</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>  —I am certainly not going to go into the detail of that. All I can say is that at this point, other than what is in the media as to the details of this complaint, that is the extent of the detail I have about this matter.</text>
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