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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-05-15" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>South Australian Tourism Commission</name>
      <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000354">
        <heading>South Australian Tourism Commission</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4363" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2019-05-15">
            <name>South Australian Tourism Commission</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-05-15T15:20:22" />
        <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000355">
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          <by role="member" id="4363">The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:20):</by>  Supplementary: I repeat my question, because the question was about changing the act not the minister's intentions or his office structure.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Trade</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-05-15">
            <name>South Australian Tourism Commission</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-05-15T15:20:31" />
        <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000356">
          <timeStamp time="2019-05-15T15:20:31" />
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (15:20):</by>  Sorry, I misinterpreted the question. I didn't realise the honourable member talked about changing the act. I guess the answer I was giving was that we already have more than two women, and I expect we will have more than two women. I have always looked at some sort of gender balance, wherever possible, so—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000358">
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY:</by>  Except—well, of course, if I was able to preselect everybody, maybe if I was that powerful, if I was like Peter Malinauskas or Don Farrell or somebody that controlled the Labor Party—</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000359">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Refer to them by their proper title.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000360">
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY:</by>  —in the Liberal Party, I might. We have a robust preselection process in the Liberal Party—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000361">
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  Point of order: the minister breaches standing orders frequently by not referring to people with their proper titles or their electorates, as you regularly remind us.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000362">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  There are many sinners in this place. Would you like to finish your answer, minister?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="201905150bf2af8701b64d86b0000363">
          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY:</by>  I do apologise. I can't recall whether—I think it is Mr Peter Malinauskas, member for Croydon and Leader of the Opposition, I don't believe he is honourable, and Senator the Hon. Don Farrell, but I was referring to him when he was controlling the Labor Party as a union official. But I think we have had enough today.</text>
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