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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-09-25" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Mental Health Commission</name>
      <text id="20190925b398f8567f1949f1b0000144">
        <heading>Mental Health Commission</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5414" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2019-09-25">
            <name>Mental Health Commission</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-09-25T14:49:34" />
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          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS (14:49):</by>  A further supplementary, sir: if there are three part-time commissioners, who will be in charge of the commission?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-09-25">
            <name>Mental Health Commission</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-09-25T14:49:44" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:49):</by>  The three commissioners together constitute the Mental Health Commission. This is one of the aspects of strengthening the commission. There is more than one voice in mental health. It is not unusual for mental health commissions to have more than one member, and my understanding is that the national commission might actually have seven members. We are a relatively humble—</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="599" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. J.S.L. Dawkins</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="599">The Hon. J.S.L. Dawkins:</by>  Several, anyway.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20190925b398f8567f1949f1b0000148">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  The Hon. Mr Dawkins indicates several. In that respect the South Australian Mental Health Commission, with three members, would be relatively modest, but I can assure you that it is more diverse than the commission the former government established.</text>
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