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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2014-11-12" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Electoral Reform</name>
      <text id="201411122c84485215514f39b0000147">
        <heading>Electoral Reform</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3489" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.L. BROKENSHIRE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2014-11-12">
            <name>Electoral Reform</name>
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        <startTime time="2014-11-12T15:02:34" />
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          <by role="member" id="3489">The Hon. R.L. BROKENSHIRE (15:02):</by>  Supplementary: can the minister advise the house whether caucus was in discussion on reform before the Premier went out to the media?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1821" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers</electorate>
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          <question date="2014-11-12">
            <name>Electoral Reform</name>
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        <startTime time="2014-11-12T15:02:52" />
        <text id="201411122c84485215514f39b0000149">
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          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Employment, Higher Education and Skills, Minister for Science and Information Economy, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Business Services and Consumers) (15:02):</by>  The honourable member well knows how the business of government and caucus is conducted. He has been in this place a long time, and the other place, and a member of a number of different parties, so he has vast experience of how parties are run, because he has been a member of so many of them. He knows that the business of government, the way the party and government determines its own business is a matter for it, and it would be inappropriate for me to be talking about the way the business of this government is conducted. On the other hand, the Premier has made it very clear—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201411122c84485215514f39b0000151">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The minister has the floor.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201411122c84485215514f39b0000152">
          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO:</by>  —that, in relation to the process that will take place in relation to public engagement, he has made those announcements already.</text>
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