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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2021-09-08" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Personal Explanation</name>
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      <name>Public Works Committee</name>
      <page num="6936" />
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        <heading>Public Works Committee</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4339" kind="speech">
        <name>Mr WHETSTONE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Chaffey</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="4339">Mr WHETSTONE (Chaffey) (15:26):</by>  I seek leave to make a personal explanation.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Has the member for Chaffey been misrepresented?</text>
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        <name>Mr WHETSTONE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <page num="7223" />
        <text id="20210908498e9f68ad024906a0000779">
          <by role="member" id="4339">Mr WHETSTONE:</by>  Yes, he has.</text>
        <text id="20210908498e9f68ad024906a0000780">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>Mr WHETSTONE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4339">Mr WHETSTONE:</by>  During that questioning of the two public servants, the meeting was abandoned as the public servant collapsed and hit the floor. We gave him help. We gave him comfort. We called an ambulance and that ambulance came to Parliament House, gave him tests, took him away—</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 member for Chaffey will confine his explanation to the circumstances in which he has been misrepresented.</text>
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        <name>Mr WHETSTONE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4339">Mr WHETSTONE:</by>  The meeting was then reconvened and, as I have already explained, the first thing that the member for West Torrens was concerned about was himself. I did not endorse the way he questioned that public servant. I did not endorse his behaviour and I did not endorse that he had no part to play.</text>
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