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  <date date="2020-09-09" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Liberal Party Country Members Dinner</name>
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        <heading>Liberal Party Country Members Dinner</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="633" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">West Torrens</electorate>
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          <question date="2020-09-09">
            <name>Liberal Party Country Members Dinner</name>
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          <by role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (15:23):</by>  My question is to you, sir. Did you attend a dinner of Liberal Party country members at the Cathedral Hotel in August?</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="202009091b87ce87f18a493290000745">
          <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER:</by>  Point of order, sir.</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 Minister for Education on a point of order.</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>  I believe that question offends standing order 96, point 2, in relation to the circumstances in which a member who is not a minister may be asked a question and for what purpose. That question does not meet the threshold set by standing order 96.</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 have the point of order. Members will have noted that I was puzzling over the relevance of the question. The question does not relate, so far as I can discern at this point, to any matter that is within standing order 96, and so I rule the question out of order. The member for Elder.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order! The member for Elder will be heard in silence.</text>
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