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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2011-10-20" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>52</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <endPage num="4242" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Court Facilities</name>
      <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000049">
        <heading>COURT FACILITIES</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4364" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2011-10-20">
            <name>COURT FACILITIES</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2011-10-20T14:31:00" />
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000050">
          <timeStamp time="2011-10-20T14:31:00" />
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT (14:31):</by>  I have a supplementary question. If the Hon. Ms Gago had actually listened to and attempted to answer the actual question she would know that it was actually about Chief Justice Doyle's inability to access the bench in a wheelchair—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000051">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You must ask the question.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4364">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000052">
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT:</by>  —and she would know that this is symbolic of—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000053">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  What is the question? You must ask the question.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4364">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000054">
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT:</by>  This is symbolic of the issues that are faced by many people with mobility issues—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000055">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4364">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000056">
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT:</by>  If you would stop talking over me I could ask it.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000057">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The Hon. Ms Vincent must ask the question.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4364">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000058">
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT:</by>  Given that this is symbolic of—</text>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000059">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="55">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4364">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000060">
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT:</by>  I am happy to waste all our time, if you like.</text>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000061">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="55">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000062">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  We treat them all the same here. The Hon. Ms—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4364">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000063">
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT:</by>  Given that this is symbolic—</text>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000064">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="55">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000065">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4364">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000066">
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT:</by>  Given that this situation of Justice Doyle is symbolic of all South Australians with mobility issues, does the minister really consider discussing this—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000067">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You must ask the question.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4364">
        <name>The Hon. K.L. VINCENT</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="4196" />
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000068">
          <by role="member" id="4364">The Hon. K.L. VINCENT:</by>  —undignified? Does the minister really consider this an undignified topic to discuss?</text>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000069">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="62">The Hon. S.G. Wade interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000070">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Wade should put a sock in it.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Public Sector Management, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister for Gambling</electorate>
        <startTime time="2011-10-20T14:32:00" />
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000071">
          <timeStamp time="2011-10-20T14:32:00" />
          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Public Sector Management, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister for Gambling) (14:32):</by>  I have answered the question, Mr President.</text>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000072">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="55">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000073">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! If the opposition continues to ask Dorothy Dixers, it must cop the punishment and the answers.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="599" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.S.L. Dawkins</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000074">
          <by role="member" id="599">The Hon. J.S.L. Dawkins:</by>  It is about time you stopped commenting from the chair.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000075">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  That's up to you. It is up to the President.</text>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000076">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="55">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000077">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! It is out of order that the opposition behaves like it does.</text>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000078">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="10">The Hon. J.S.L. Dawkins interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20111020c74e265ae18f49c2b0000079">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Dawkins should put a sock in it too. The Hon. Ms Lensink.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
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