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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Child Protection</name>
      <text id="202408291a57a9a882734371b0000578">
        <heading>Child Protection</heading>
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        <name>Mr TEAGUE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Heysen</electorate>
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          <question date="2024-08-29T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Child Protection</name>
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        <startTime time="2024-08-29T14:23:18+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="5381" referenceid="a67795d8a9734f88b14c11a0318b3b0c">Mr TEAGUE (Heysen) (14:23):</by>  Supplementary.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Is it a supplementary?</text>
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        <name>Mr TEAGUE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Heysen</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="5381" referenceid="a67795d8a9734f88b14c11a0318b3b0c">Mr TEAGUE:</by>  Yes, it is a supplementary question.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Give it a go and we will see if it is a supplementary.</text>
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        <name>Mr TEAGUE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Heysen</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="5381" referenceid="a67795d8a9734f88b14c11a0318b3b0c">Mr TEAGUE:</by>  Supplementary question to the Minister for Child Protection: in light of those answers, how will identifying the number of abuse reports and investigations prejudice any ongoing investigation?</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Did you want the question again, minister?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5381" referenceid="a67795d8a9734f88b14c11a0318b3b0c" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>Mr TEAGUE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Heysen</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="5381" referenceid="a67795d8a9734f88b14c11a0318b3b0c">Mr TEAGUE:</by>  The supplementary question: in light of those answers, how will identifying the number of abuse reports and investigations prejudice any police investigation?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4846" referenceid="13be682a04ba433b88fa53e0b98e6bf0" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Reynell</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Child Protection</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Women and the Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing</name>
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        <startTime time="2024-08-29T14:24:06+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="4846" referenceid="13be682a04ba433b88fa53e0b98e6bf0">The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD (Reynell—Minister for Child Protection, Minister for Women and the Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (14:24):</by>  I will try to explain this again to the member for Heysen. I am not in any way, through inference or otherwise, going to ever say something that will potentially prejudice a police investigation or a court matter.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Reynell</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Child Protection</name>
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            <name>Minister for Women and the Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence</name>
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            <name>Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4846" referenceid="13be682a04ba433b88fa53e0b98e6bf0">The Hon. K.A. HILDYARD:</by>  Of course I am aware—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Excuse me, minister. Members on my left, including the member for Colton, there are few subjects more important to South Australia than this and I would ask you to listen to the minister in silence, or the next person who pipes up will be out of here.</text>
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