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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2016-11-15" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Nuclear Waste</name>
      <text id="201611151fb46a9949924de4b0000096">
        <heading>Nuclear Waste</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="2016-11-15">
            <name>Nuclear Waste</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-11-15T14:32:15" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:32):</by>  Does the minister support the move to have a referendum on the issue?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety</electorate>
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          <question date="2016-11-15">
            <name>Nuclear Waste</name>
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        <startTime time="2016-11-15T14:32:34" />
        <text id="201611151fb46a9949924de4b0000098">
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          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (14:32):</by>  Again, I thank the honourable member for his question on this important subject. Yes, I wholeheartedly support the government's position to look at having a referendum on this important issue—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="5404" />
        <text id="201611151fb46a9949924de4b0000100">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  —to have a referendum on this issue—</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="201611151fb46a9949924de4b0000103">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  —and in the event that the Liberal Party and the members opposite decide to exercise some political leadership and actually act in a way that is consistent with their own convictions, and if that bipartisanship is restored, as the Premier has articulated, then of course we can establish a path towards having a referendum in due course.</text>
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