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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2013-04-11" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Free-Range Eggs</name>
      <text id="2013041168026ae2d4e4482790000155">
        <heading>FREE-RANGE EGGS</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="2013-04-11">
            <name>FREE-RANGE EGGS</name>
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        <startTime time="2013-04-11T14:56:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:56):</by>  I have a supplementary question. In relation to truth in labelling, is the minister aware that Victorian eggs are currently being sold in the Barossa Valley under the label of Barossa Ridge?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1822">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="2013041168026ae2d4e4482790000157">
          <by role="member" id="1822">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I don't know how that relates to it, but if the honourable minister has—</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 the Status of Women, Minister for State/Local Government Relations</electorate>
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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 the Status of Women, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (14:56):</by>  Mr President, I'm not too sure whether the honourable member is saying that there has been a breach of labelling legislation. If there is, then I am happy to investigate it; if there is not, and I doubt that there is, then people are entitled to—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. Ridgway</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="2013041168026ae2d4e4482790000159">
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. Ridgway:</by>  Mislead the consumer—okay, fine.</text>
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        <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>  Well, there are lots of issues around labelling and a great deal of complexity. There are also issues around the way that people are entitled to promote and advertise their material. There are very contentious points of view around that that we, as legislators, try to balance. As I said, if the honourable member believes that there has been a breach, then I am happy to follow it up.</text>
      </talker>
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