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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2017-10-17" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Automotive Supplier Diversification Program</name>
      <text id="201710171a7bb00b35bf437780000215">
        <heading>Automotive Supplier Diversification Program</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="599" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2017-10-17">
            <name>Automotive Supplier Diversification Program</name>
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        <startTime time="2017-10-17T15:12:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="599">The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS (15:12):</by>  Supplementary.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201710171a7bb00b35bf437780000217">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Supplementary, and can we just tone down the language a bit.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201710171a7bb00b35bf437780000218">
          <by role="member" id="599">The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS:</by>  Given that today the minister has advised me that the Beyond Auto section within the Department for Communities and Social Inclusion is engaged with the suicide prevention networks in the northern suburbs, can the minister tell me which networks they have been engaged with, when that happened and with what particular events Beyond Auto was involved?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy</electorate>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy) (15:13):</by>  I thank the honourable member for his question and his very genuine interest in this area. I am happy to go and get details of these programs. I might, while I am on my feet, talk about the programs this government is running. Over the last couple of years, the government has run a number of programs under the auspices of the Automotive Workers in Transition Program, targeted at auto workers in the auto supply chain.</text>
        <text id="201710171a7bb00b35bf437780000220">Holden has been doing the same thing for their own workers. As of this weekend, the state government and Holden have combined forces to make sure we are providing as much service as possible to as many workers right across the auto industry. That means that the sites for the state government's program, as well as the transition centre at Holden, are being opened up to the whole auto supply chain and to Holden workers.</text>
        <text id="201710171a7bb00b35bf437780000221">We also announced this weekend that both Holden and the state government will continue on for an extra year, until mid-2019, the availability of these services for workers. What we have done consistently is, where there is a need to change, to adapt, to make sure we are doing absolutely everything we can to stand up for workers, that we are doing it in relation to the specific programs (I am happy to see whether I can provide more information), but we will continue as a Labor government to stand up for workers, because that is what we do.</text>
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