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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2017-03-02" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Departmental Staff</name>
      <text id="20170302e87b7d1f3f36449e80000228">
        <heading>Departmental Staff</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="2017-03-02">
            <name>Departmental Staff</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-03-02T14:28:20" />
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:28):</by>  Final supplementary: given it was an internal flattening, how does the minister explain the movement of a Mr Matt Johnson from the Department of State Development into DEWNR, given he said it was all done through an internal restructure?</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>
        <questions>
          <question date="2017-03-02">
            <name>Departmental Staff</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-03-02T14:28:32" />
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          <timeStamp time="2017-03-02T14:28:32" />
          <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) (14:28):</by>  I have no idea whether that was part of the reorganisation and restructure or whether it was done for another policy purpose.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. Ridgway interjecting:</event>
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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="20170302e87b7d1f3f36449e80000232">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  Again, the Hon. Mr Ridgway seems to be—</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The honourable minister will not engage in debate. Just answer the question.</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="20170302e87b7d1f3f36449e80000234">
          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  No, you are quite right, Mr President, I shouldn't, because it certainly doesn't educate anybody in this place to listen to the Hon. Mr Ridgway—his very odd behaviour in this place and, in particular, his very odd questions. However, as I say, I take all questions as valuable opportunities to educate the opposition because they certainly won't have much chance to experience how government works in this place for the best part of another two decades, the way they are going.</text>
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