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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2015-06-16" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Women's Sporting Events</name>
      <text id="201506166cc7c284449b46c190000057">
        <heading>Women's Sporting Events</heading>
      </text>
      <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="2015-06-16">
            <name>Women's Sporting Events</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-06-16T14:28:44" />
        <text id="201506166cc7c284449b46c190000058">
          <timeStamp time="2015-06-16T14:28:44" />
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:28):</by>  I have a supplementary question: can the minister reconcile the Premier's statement that 'instead of a major, tier 1 event you might go for, say, a woman's event'—what does the Premier mean by that?</text>
      </talker>
      <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>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-06-16">
            <name>Women's Sporting Events</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-06-16T14:28:55" />
        <text id="201506166cc7c284449b46c190000059">
          <timeStamp time="2015-06-16T14:28:55" />
          <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) (14:28):</by>  I do not accept any of the assertions made in this place by the opposition. We see them come in here day in and day out with misconstrued statements and inaccurate statements. We had them waving some figures in question time last week. They had no idea what the figures were and could not understand them. They made absolute fools of themselves, between the Hon. David Ridgway and the Hon. Rob Lucas. They did not have a clue. They were construing all sorts of things around those figures.</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="201506166cc7c284449b46c190000061">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! Will you please have a little bit of respect for a woman who is on her feet as a minister giving an answer to one of your questions. Minister.</text>
      </talker>
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        <name>The Hon. G.E. GAGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201506166cc7c284449b46c190000062">
          <by role="member" id="1821">The Hon. G.E. GAGO:</by>  Thank you for your protection, sir. I do not accept any of the assertions made by the opposition. They regularly come into this place with inaccurate statements that are completely out of context.</text>
      </talker>
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