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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Local Government Elections</name>
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        <heading>Local Government Elections</heading>
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        <name>Mr TELFER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Flinders</electorate>
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            <name>Local Government Elections</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6888" referenceid="1b23b655d40349f8a472b7b9eeba16df">Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:46):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Local Government. Is the Electoral Commissioner investigating the 2022 local government periodic elections for voter fraud and, if so, has the minister received a briefing on the progress of this investigation?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3533" referenceid="b36985ad28fc470ba1418bc9165312fa" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.G. BROCK</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Stuart</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Local Government</name>
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            <name>Minister for Regional Roads</name>
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            <name>Minister for Veterans Affairs</name>
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            <name>Local Government Elections</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3533" referenceid="b36985ad28fc470ba1418bc9165312fa">The Hon. G.G. BROCK (Stuart—Minister for Local Government, Minister for Regional Roads, Minister for Veterans Affairs) (14:46):</by>  I thank the member for Flinders for his question. As he is very well aware, the Electoral Commissioner is independent of the parliament itself and the government. However, I am aware that the Electoral Commissioner is doing a review of the whole local government elections from 2022. I have made a commitment in this house here that we, as the minister, through the Office of Local Government, will do a review also. I have made that quite clear in this house here on numerous occasions. But further to the question, I have had no communication from the Electoral Commissioner regarding his review at this stage. I am waiting for a report.</text>
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