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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2009-09-22" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>51</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>3</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <startPage num="3185" />
  <endPage num="3261" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="20090922ea449c6c892842c8b0000231">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
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    <subject>
      <name>Ombudsman</name>
      <text id="20090922ea449c6c892842c8b0000232">
        <heading>OMBUDSMAN</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="3128" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A. BRESSINGTON</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2009-09-22">
            <name>OMBUDSMAN</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20090922ea449c6c892842c8b0000233">In reply to <by role="member" id="3128">the Hon. A. BRESSINGTON</by> (March 2009).</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="574" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Small Business</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2009-09-22">
            <name>OMBUDSMAN</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="20090922ea449c6c892842c8b0000234">
          <by role="member" id="574">The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Small Business):</by>  The Attorney-General received the report from Mr Ternezis and has referred it to the appropriate Minister, namely, the Minister for Families and Communities.</text>
        <text id="20090922ea449c6c892842c8b0000235">The Attorney-General does not accept Mr Ternezis's and the Honourable Member's allegations of procedural corruption, improper collusion and cover up and 'assimilation to the culture of bureaucracy'.</text>
        <text id="20090922ea449c6c892842c8b0000236">The Minister, the Ombudsman and the Crown Solicitor's Office do not agree with Mr Ternezis and the Honourable Member about the facts or that the law does not make them guilty of these allegations.</text>
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