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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2012-10-17" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Local Government Code of Conduct</name>
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        <heading>LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF CONDUCT</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2012-10-17">
            <name>LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF CONDUCT</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (14:36):</by>  A supplementary question. I ask the minister: if an elected mayor was to use a ratepayer funded mobile phone to send a text under the circumstances that the Leader of the Opposition has highlighted, would it be contrary to his mandated code of conduct that he released yesterday?</text>
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      <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>
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          <question date="2012-10-17">
            <name>LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF CONDUCT</name>
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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 mandated code of conduct will depend on the policies of the councils, and various councils have different policies, so it will depend on the policy of the council. As I said, this has only just arisen. It's not unusual for the opposition to start throwing allegations around the place that have no substance, so I'm not going to engage in a debate on the issue.</text>
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