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  <date date="2020-02-06" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <heading>Question Time</heading>
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    <subject>
      <name>Member for Waite</name>
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        <heading>Member for Waite</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="question">
        <name>Mr MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Croydon</electorate>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2020-02-06">
            <name>Member for Waite</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5084">Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:18):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Did the member for Waite slap a female member of parliament on the backside on Friday 13 December?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Premier</name>
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          <question date="2020-02-06">
            <name>Member for Waite</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:18):</by>  I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question. That is going to be the subject of the investigation which is currently underway.</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>:  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  This process was put in place last year and my understanding is that there is not long to wait. I wasn't at the crossbench drinks at the time of the incident. I had attended earlier in the afternoon before our end of season event—</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="20200206c8b08e586692450780000261">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —which was held in the Members' Dining Room, but I wasn't present at the time and that's exactly and precisely the reason that this process has been put in place.</text>
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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>  I call to order the members for Reynell, Badcoe and Morphett. Leader.</text>
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