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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2011-10-19" />
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Trade Union Officials</name>
      <page num="4098" />
      <text id="20111019991f76bb2835456580000025">
        <heading>TRADE UNION OFFICIALS</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Leader of the Opposition</electorate>
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          <question date="2011-10-19">
            <name>TRADE UNION OFFICIALS</name>
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        <startTime time="2011-10-19T14:25:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:25):</by>  As a supplementary question, has the minister ever been involved in negotiating such a payment or payments as a trade union official, and has the minister ever received such a payment or payments as a union official?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3122">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111019991f76bb2835456580000027">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  Point of order.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Hunter has a point of order.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  I can find absolutely no basis of ministerial responsibility in that question.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The honourable minister does not have to answer the question if he does not wish, of course. All I know is that I would have been a millionaire if I had had payments like that.</text>
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