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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Speaker, Election</name>
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        <heading>Speaker, Election</heading>
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        <name>Mr PEDERICK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hammond</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-10-13">
            <name>Speaker, Election</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3120">Mr PEDERICK (Hammond) (14:14):</by>  My question is to you, Mr Speaker. Did you discuss becoming the Speaker with members of the Labor Party prior to you quitting the Liberal Party?</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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            <name>Speaker, Election</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-10-13T14:14:21" />
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          <by role="member" id="5381">The SPEAKER (14:14):</by>  Thank you, member for Hammond. In fact, I'm yet to resign from the Liberal Party and so that question is hypothetical. Further questions? Leader.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5387">Mr Brown 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>  Order, the member for Playford!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! I am on my feet. Order!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members 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>  The member for Playford will leave for half an hour under 137A.</text>
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          <term>The honourable member for Playford having withdrawn from the chamber:</term>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  However, member for Hammond, I am informed that correspondence is being rapidly drafted. Further questions? The leader.</text>
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