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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2011-07-26" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Burnside Council</name>
      <text id="201107261746c1aadcfa444ba0000160">
        <heading>BURNSIDE COUNCIL</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2011-07-26">
            <name>BURNSIDE COUNCIL</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-07-26T14:35:00" />
        <text id="201107261746c1aadcfa444ba0000161">
          <timeStamp time="2011-07-26T14:35:00" />
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:35):  </by>I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for State/Local Government Relations a question about the Burnside council.</text>
        <text id="201107261746c1aadcfa444ba0000162">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201107261746c1aadcfa444ba0000163">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK: </by> In response to a question from the Hon. John Darley on 6 July the minister stated:</text>
        <text id="201107261746c1aadcfa444ba0000164">
          <inserted>I would like to make clear that all allegations of corruption have been referred to the South Australia Police Anti-Corruption Branch, even prior to this investigation.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="201107261746c1aadcfa444ba0000165">A letter from the police commissioner to the Hon. Ann Bressington dated 19 July makes clear that the draft report and related material have not been referred to the Anti-Corruption Branch. My question to the minister is:</text>
        <text id="201107261746c1aadcfa444ba0000166">1.&amp;#x9;Does the minister stand by his statement of 6 July 'that all allegations of corruption have been referred to the South Australia Police Anti-Corruption Branch', given the advice of the police commissioner that the ACB did not have the material on 19 July 2011?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations</name>
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            <name>Minister for State/Local Government Relations</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-07-26T14:36:00" />
        <text id="201107261746c1aadcfa444ba0000167">
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          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (14:36):</by>  The statements I referred to with regard to allegations going to the Anti-Corruption Branch were in regard to allegations made prior to the investigation. Allegations had been referred prior to the investigation, and the Anti-Corruption Branch found no evidence of criminality and did not take it any further.</text>
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