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    <name>Parliament House Matters</name>
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      <name>April Fools' Day</name>
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        <heading>April Fools' Day</heading>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Before I call the Clerk, we just have a few changes that we are making in parliament after some discussions yesterday. There will no longer be speeches or questions and answers; they will be replaced with interpretive dance. The education office is getting a whole lot of props back here that you can use from 2 o'clock today.</text>
        <text id="20250401c6509735a0684afaa0000009">No, of course, yesterday I had the Tatachilla Lutheran grade 5 students in and they wanted to know what these little things were with the date on them, and I said, 'That's the 1<sup>st</sup> because tomorrow is the 1<sup>st</sup> of April,' and they asked, 'Are you going to do an April Fools' Day joke?' I said, 'What would your suggestion be?' and they said, 'Why don't you get rid of speeches and make people do some mime?' So we are not actually going to do that, but happy April Fools' Day to everyone.</text>
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