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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Attorney-General</name>
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      <text id="20191031b84213e6dffd44e3a0000569">
        <heading>Attorney-General</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4841" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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          <question date="2019-10-31">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:25):</by>  My question is to the Attorney-General. Why does the Attorney-General keep picking fights with senior judicial officers, the most recent examples being a royal commissioner, the ICAC commissioner and the Chief Justice, and when does her own position become untenable?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20191031b84213e6dffd44e3a0000571">
          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER:</by>  Point of order.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The point of order is for—take your pick—perhaps argument, standing order 97.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER:</by>  Argument and everything else in standing order 97.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I am going to allow the Deputy Premier an opportunity to defend herself and answer the question.</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>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-10-31T14:25:48" />
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          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General) (14:25):</by>  I will take that as a comment with which I don't agree.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">An honourable member 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 Deputy Premier has answered. Member for Flinders. I will come back to the member for Kaurna.</text>
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