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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2011-07-07" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Burnside Council</name>
      <text id="20110707470d9badba0c43a390000212">
        <heading>BURNSIDE COUNCIL</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2011-07-07">
            <name>BURNSIDE COUNCIL</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-07-07T15:03:00" />
        <text id="20110707470d9badba0c43a390000213">
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          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (15:03):</by>  My questions are to the Minister for Industrial Relations:</text>
        <text id="20110707470d9badba0c43a390000214">1.&amp;#x9;Will the minister ensure that a copy of the MacPherson report is provided to the ACB so that if there is any evidence of criminal action it can be considered for further action by the ACB?</text>
        <text id="20110707470d9badba0c43a390000215">2.&amp;#x9;Has the minister, or any of the officers in his ministerial office, had any communication with Labor lobbyist John Quirke, husband of former Burnside councillor Davina Quirke, about the inquiry by Mr MacPherson into the Burnside council?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2011-07-07">
            <name>BURNSIDE COUNCIL</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-07-07T15:05:00" />
        <text id="20110707470d9badba0c43a390000216">
          <timeStamp time="2011-07-07T15:05:00" />
          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (15:05):</by>  First of all, with regard to John Quirke, I have no knowledge of any communication that any of my people have had.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. Lucas</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20110707470d9badba0c43a390000217">
          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. Lucas:</by>  Will you check?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20110707470d9badba0c43a390000218">
          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY:</by>  I will check, but I am sure they would have declared that when we were discussing this issue. I have full confidence that my staff have not had anything to do with Mr Quirke. With regard to the first question, I will take that on notice and get back to the honourable member.</text>
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