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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2015-07-30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding>
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <text id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000423">
      <heading>Question Time</heading>
    </text>
    <subject>
      <name>Members' Conduct</name>
      <text id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000424">
        <heading>Members' Conduct</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>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-07-30">
            <name>Members' Conduct</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2015-07-30T14:17:24" />
        <text id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000425">
          <timeStamp time="2015-07-30T14:17:24" />
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:17):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking you, sir, a question about members' conduct.</text>
        <text id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000426">Leave granted.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000427">
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY:</by>  You may recall, and members may recall, that on 24 February this year, I asked you a question about the process for members of the public lodging complaints against, potentially, the President of the Legislative Council. I will just refresh members' memory as to my question:</text>
        <text id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000428">
          <inserted>…if a member of the public believes they have been subjected to inappropriate conduct by the President of the Legislative Council, to whom should they lodge [that] complaint about [the] conduct?</inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000429">Your reply, sir, was:</text>
        <text id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000430">
          <inserted>I will take that on notice and bring back an answer as soon as possible.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000431">My question to you, sir, is: have the 156 days since I asked that question been sufficient time for you to be able to give an answer to this chamber?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="answer">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <startTime time="2015-07-30T14:18:15" />
        <text id="20150730a03d2241db6249aea0000432">
          <timeStamp time="2015-07-30T14:18:15" />
          <by role="member" id="3125">The PRESIDENT (14:18):</by>  That question related to an article which was in, I think, InDaily. There were two sides to that story. I disagree with the version by the other party. It's a hypothetical and I am the President. If someone has a problem, I am the person they come to.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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