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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Member for Waite</name>
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        <heading>Member for Waite</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>Member for Waite</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:30):</by>  My question is to the Attorney-General. Did the Hon. Connie Bonaros ask the Attorney-General to withhold any details of information she conveyed about the allegations of the behaviour by the member for Waite—to withhold that information, any of it, from the Premier?</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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            <name>Member for Waite</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1804">The Hon. V.A. CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General) (14:30):</by>  I certainly don't recall any request of that nature at all but, again, I won't be going into the detail of what she did convey to me.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4623">The Hon. Z.L. Bettison 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>  Member for Ramsay!</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 undertook to do as she requested, and that is report it to the Premier. That is entirely consistent with what I have done on other occasions and that is precisely what I did. That, as we now know as a matter of public record, is a matter the particulars of which are now being looked at by the South Australian police and so for obvious reasons it wouldn't be appropriate that I make any further comment in relation to the information that came to my attention. But, in any event, I assure the house that the process of what was undertaken in relation to that matter was entirely consistent with what I have done on previous occasions.</text>
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