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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-10-24" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Disability Sector</name>
      <text id="20181024b905773e66004e1aa0000182">
        <heading>Disability Sector</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2018-10-24">
            <name>Disability Sector</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-10-24T14:56:37" />
        <text id="20181024b905773e66004e1aa0000183">
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:56):</by>  A supplementary question arising from the answer: when the minister says, 'everyone in the sector knew exactly what we would do,' does she actually understand that people will read that <term>Hansard</term>, people in the sector, and see what sort of minister she is, claiming that they knew what she would do? Does she actually understand that?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
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            <name>Minister for Human Services</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2018-10-24">
            <name>Disability Sector</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-10-24T14:57:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:57):</by>  Mr President, it is the Leader of—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20181024b905773e66004e1aa0000186">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  The Leader of the Opposition does like to ask ministers, kind of go, 'Do you realise what you say on the public record is publicly available?' Yes, I have always realised that everything I say in this place is publicly available.</text>
        <text id="20181024b905773e66004e1aa0000187">What the Leader of the Opposition is saying is actually quite insulting to people who would access this. If you are interested in what a particular political party is going to do, then you will check their website, you will look for specific commitments in your area of interest. If you are not, then you won't. It is as simple as that. He is kind of insulting people by assuming that they do not check these things for themselves, that somehow the—</text>
        <text id="20181024b905773e66004e1aa0000188">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20181024b905773e66004e1aa0000189">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Leader of the Opposition, this is just getting silly. Minister, sit down. This line of questioning is finished. The Hon. Ms Bourke.</text>
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