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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2015-06-17" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Unemployment Figures</name>
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        <heading>Unemployment Figures</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2015-06-17">
            <name>Unemployment Figures</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-06-17T15:05:40" />
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          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (15:05):</by>  Given the minister's claims that she has just repeated in her answer, can the minister confirm that South Australia's participation rate, which she is boasting about, is the lowest in mainland Australia and actually lower than it was 12 months ago in June 2014?</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="2015-06-17">
            <name>Unemployment Figures</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-06-17T15:05:55" />
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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) (15:05):</by>  I never said that. They are assertions that the honourable member has made up. What I indicated was that for two months in a row our participation rate increased, and that was a positive sign. That is what I indicated.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Supplementary, the Hon. Mr Lucas.</text>
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