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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-06-03" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Disability Services</name>
      <text id="202006031b677588abe24749b0000205">
        <heading>Disability Services</heading>
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      <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="2020-06-03">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-06-03T14:52:42" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:52):</by>  Supplementary directly arising from the original answer: who is advising you, minister, that you can't comment on any of the circumstances of Ann Marie Smith's death if they arise from records your own department has held?</text>
      </talker>
      <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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          <question date="2020-06-03">
            <name>Disability Services</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-06-03T14:52:59" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:52):</by>  Hypothetically, if I was to receive legal advice I wouldn't be able to refer to it. It has been the advice also of the—</text>
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          <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="202006031b677588abe24749b0000209">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —Department of Human Services. I have referred to the fact that we do need to be pretty circumspect about the details of this case. I think it's irresponsible, quite frankly, of the Leader of the Opposition to be asking these questions when we have a major crime investigation taking place.</text>
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        <text id="202006031b677588abe24749b0000211">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202006031b677588abe24749b0000212">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202006031b677588abe24749b0000213">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  I can assure honourable members that if there were any files within my ministerial office they have been hypothetically provided to any investigation that is taking place.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202006031b677588abe24749b0000215">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  The implication the honourable member is making is that I haven't asked questions about this. I certainly have. They form part of the police investigation—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. Bourke interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order, the Hon. Ms Bourke!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —and we will be fully cooperating with the commonwealth in terms of their own independent investigation.</text>
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