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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2016-10-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Gawler River Flooding</name>
      <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000136">
        <heading>Gawler River Flooding</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="2016-10-18">
            <name>Gawler River Flooding</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-10-18T14:38:15" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:38):</by>  I have a supplementary question. Can the minister actually answer the question and confirm that the Gawler River broke its banks in exactly the same place in 2005 and 2016? It was an important part of the question that I asked and he failed to answer it.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000138">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Is that a statement or a question?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000139">
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY:</by>  A question.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000141">
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY:</by>  Part of the original question.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000142">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I just wanted to know. Minister.</text>
      </talker>
      <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>
        <startTime time="2016-10-18T14:38:38" />
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000143">
          <timeStamp time="2016-10-18T14:38:38" />
          <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) (14:38):</by>  Thank you, Mr President, thank you for seeking that clarification. It seldom is very clear what the Hon. Mr Ridgway is actually asking in this place; it is usually to do a bit of grandstanding and I think it is appropriate that you pulled him up and asked him for that clarity.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. Ridgway</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000144">
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. Ridgway:</by>  Just answer the question.</text>
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        <name>Members interjecting</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000145">
          <by role="office">Members interjecting:</by>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000146">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000147">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  I will undertake to seek advice and find out whether in fact the Hon. Mr Ridgway is correct. More often than not, as I said before, he is not. I will go out and ask the people who have the collective wisdom to answer the question. I would not be relying on the Hon. David Ridgway for any factual advice on any subject.</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="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000149">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! The Hon. Ms Lensink has the floor.</text>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000150">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20161018cba16c4b01ec4d18a0000151">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  No, the Hon. Ms Lensink has the floor.</text>
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