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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2012-05-30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Women's Information Service</name>
      <text id="20120530fce71e81e4914c2aa0000241">
        <heading>WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE</heading>
      </text>
      <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="2012-05-30">
            <name>WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE</name>
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        <startTime time="2012-05-30T15:18:00" />
        <text id="20120530fce71e81e4914c2aa0000242">
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (15:18): </by> By way of supplementary question, will the minister advise whether the Liberal Party's women's spokesperson and former WIS volunteer, Vickie Chapman, was invited? She did provide pro bono services to the victims of domestic violence service, I think, in the 1980s and 1990s.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2012-05-30">
            <name>WOMEN'S INFORMATION SERVICE</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Tourism, Minister for the Status of Women) (15:18): </by> No, but the Hon. Michelle Lensink was invited.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="1340" />
        <text id="20120530fce71e81e4914c2aa0000244">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink: </by> No I wasn't.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120530fce71e81e4914c2aa0000245">
          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO: </by> You were invited.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120530fce71e81e4914c2aa0000246">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink:</by>  I was not invited.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120530fce71e81e4914c2aa0000247">
          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO: </by> Well, I certainly did ask—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="55">Members interjecting:</event>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1704">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120530fce71e81e4914c2aa0000249">
          <by role="member" id="1704">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1821">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20120530fce71e81e4914c2aa0000250">
          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO:</by>  —that Michelle Lensink be invited, and I was informed that the Hon. Michelle Lensink apologised and said that she was unable to attend, which was a real shame.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="34">The Hon. J.M.A. Lensink interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="1821">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO: </by> I'm just saying that was the information I was given. I definitely did ask that the Hon. Michelle Lensink be invited and was informed that she had apologised that she was unable to attend. I will certainly look into what broke down, but I was very disappointed when I heard that the Hon. Michelle Lensink was not able to attend. She was invited because I was announcing the history project, which the Hon. Michelle Lensink gave me the idea about, and that is why she was invited. I was very disappointed when my office informed me that she was not able to attend, but I will obviously look into that and find out what went wrong.</text>
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