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  <date date="2016-02-24" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Environment Protection Authority Air Quality Policy</name>
      <text id="20160224d83151c0960745a3a0000085">
        <heading>Environment Protection Authority Air Quality Policy</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="2016-02-24">
            <name>Environment Protection Authority Air Quality Policy</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-02-24T14:32:25" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:32):</by>  Why then is the EPA giving the member for Goyder a briefing on the policy on Monday but the minister is unable to tell us what the policy is today?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2016-02-24">
            <name>Environment Protection Authority Air Quality Policy</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-02-24T14:32:34" />
        <text id="20160224d83151c0960745a3a0000087">
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:32):</by>  We are an inclusive and open government and I always offer members of the opposition briefings on the policy and the changes and reviews that we are undertaking. The process is simply this: we will background opposition MPs—indeed any MPs or any member of the public—on the process we are undertaking. When the policy is finally delivered to me as a draft, I will then be in a position to make further public comment about the impacts of it. But to presume that I have already drafted and authorised a policy change without taking into account that public feedback first is absolutely wrong.</text>
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