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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2017-05-10" />
  <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>
    <subject>
      <name>Police Workers Compensation</name>
      <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000117">
        <heading>Police Workers Compensation</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2017-05-10">
            <name>Police Workers Compensation</name>
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        </questions>
        <startTime time="2017-05-10T14:48:09" />
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000118">
          <timeStamp time="2017-05-10T14:48:09" />
          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (14:48):</by>  Supplementary question: given the minister has referred to ongoing discussions with the Police Association of South Australia, does the minister stand by the statement he made in December when he said:</text>
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000119">
          <inserted>…nor have I received any representation from the Police Association of South Australia articulating a position that the change from self-insured status to ReturnToWorkSA having the responsibilities via their agents of managing injured workers' claims will result in a worse outcome for their employees.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <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>
        <questions>
          <question date="2017-05-10">
            <name>Police Workers Compensation</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-05-10T14:48:41" />
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000120">
          <timeStamp time="2017-05-10T14:48:41" />
          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (14:48):</by>  I have spoken on a verbal basis with the Police Association about a range of issues on a regular basis.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. Lucas</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000121">
          <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. Lucas:</by>  How else would you speak to them?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000122">
          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  Via correspondence, email, text message, any number of forms of communication.</text>
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000123">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000124">
          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  Look, I appreciate that the Hon. Mr Lucas has been around a long time, but I am pretty sure he is au fait with more modern forms of technology.</text>
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000125">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000126">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5084" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20170510bbd127b5bd7446a980000127">
          <by role="member" id="5084">The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS:</by>  The discussions I have had with the leadership of the Police Association of South Australia have conveyed to me that they do not have any particular concerns or reservations around the movement of case management for workers compensation away from SAPOL to an alternative case provider.</text>
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