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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <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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          <question date="2021-08-24">
            <name>Member for Waite</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:02):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Does the Premier believe that a 'drunken pest' deserves a place in your party room? With your leave, and that of the house, I will explain.</text>
        <text id="20210824a1e383b1139449bf90000473">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>Dr CLOSE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE:</by>  In his judgement today, Magistrate Jonathan Wells described the member for Waite as 'rude, unpleasant, insensitive and disrespectful' and clearly a 'drunken pest'.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-08-24T15:03:15" />
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (15:03):</by>  I just refer the member to my previous answers. On this, I will not be lectured by the Labor Party. One of her own shadow cabinet colleagues was castigated by the ICAC for incredibly unfortunate language.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Deputy Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The DEPUTY 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>  I think the member for West Torrens at the time might have referred to it as 'conversational swearing', but we all know the language that was used to bully and intimidate people within his own department, found very, very, very unacceptable by the ICAC. I take advice from a lot of people, a lot of different groups across the state. One group I won't be taking any lectures from whatsoever is the Australian Labor Party.</text>
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        <name>The Deputy Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The DEPUTY SPEAKER:</by>  Before I call the deputy leader, the member for West Torrens is warned for the first time, the member for Playford is called to order and the member for Lee is called to order.</text>
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