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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2017-08-09" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Drug-Related Crime</name>
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        <heading>Drug-Related Crime</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4866" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2017-08-09">
            <name>Drug-Related Crime</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-08-09T14:58:01" />
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          <by role="member" id="4866">The Hon. A.L. McLACHLAN (14:58):</by>  Supplementary: is it your understanding that if they were willing to supply or give evidence on the methodology of investigation, however that may have taken place, that there would have been a prima facie case to secure a conviction? The article indicates that they decided not to give the evidence over and therefore the prosecution could not continue.</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="2017-08-09">
            <name>Drug-Related Crime</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-08-09T14:58:30" />
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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) (14:58):</by>  The information I have received from SAPOL speaks to the reasons why a decision was made not to hand over that evidence, which is distinct from any brief or information that I received as to the veracity or likelihood of a successful conviction, had that evidence been handed over. In other words, the information I have received doesn't speak to the Hon. Mr McLachlan's specific question.</text>
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