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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2021-08-24" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Member for Waite</name>
      <text id="20210824bcc3e06379804c4fa0000491">
        <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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        <startTime time="2021-08-24T15:07:59" />
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          <by role="member" id="4622">Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:07):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Is there anything a parliamentary investigation could find that would outweigh a magistrate's description of the member for Waite as 'rude, unpleasant, insensitive, disrespectful', 'a drunken pest', in your consideration that might allow him back into the Liberal party room?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4342">
        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN:</by>  Point of order, sir: that question is entirely hypothetical.</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>  Well, 'Is there anything,' it is hypothetical. Premier, did you want to have a go at it? No?</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="2021-08-24T15:08:36" />
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (15:08):</by>  I don't have—</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>  —anything further to add to the answers that I have already provided to the house.</text>
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