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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2009-02-18T00:00:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Adoption</name>
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        <heading>ADOPTION</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="603" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.D. LAWSON</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2009-02-18">
            <name>ADOPTION</name>
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        <text id="20090218b4b9a104f91841a190000264">In reply to <by role="member" id="603">the Hon. R.D. LAWSON</by> (10 September 2008).</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="629" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. CARMEL ZOLLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Correctional Services</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Road Safety</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Gambling</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2009-02-18">
            <name>ADOPTION</name>
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        <text id="20090218b4b9a104f91841a190000265">
          <by role="member" id="629">The Hon. CARMEL ZOLLO (Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Road Safety, Minister for Gambling, Minister Assisting the Minister for Multicultural Affairs):</by>  The Minister for Families and Communities has provided the following information:</text>
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              <cell>Year</cell>
              <cell>No of adoption orders granted—infants adopted by people on the prospective adoptive parents register</cell>
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              <cell>2007-08</cell>
              <cell>36</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>2006-07</cell>
              <cell>62</cell>
            </row>
            <row>
              <cell>2005-06</cell>
              <cell>72</cell>
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            <row>
              <cell>2004-05</cell>
              <cell>77</cell>
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            <row>
              <cell>2003-04</cell>
              <cell>79</cell>
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