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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-03-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Multicultural Grants Program</name>
      <text id="20210318a947a58175784b40b0000119">
        <heading>Multicultural Grants Program</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-03-18">
            <name>Multicultural Grants Program</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-03-18T14:47:24" />
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          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (14:47):</by>  My question is to the Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs. Has the assistant minister or any of her staff—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210318a947a58175784b40b0000122">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The Hon. Mr Wortley will start again, because his own front and backbench are interfering with the ability for him to be heard.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210318a947a58175784b40b0000124">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  No, it wasn't. It was his own benches. The Hon. Mr Wortley has the call.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210318a947a58175784b40b0000125">
          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY:</by>  Thank you, Mr President, for your protection. Has the assistant minister or any of her staff ever had conversations with the Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment or any integrity body about the appropriateness of their conversations with multicultural stakeholders?</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>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I call the assistant minister, if she wishes to answer.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.S. LEE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <startTime time="2021-03-18T14:48:14" />
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          <by role="member" id="4362">The Hon. J.S. LEE (14:48):</by>  Thank you, Mr President.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members 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!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.S. LEE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4362">The Hon. J.S. LEE:</by>  From time to time, any staff, if they wish to actually have a conversation with the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment, are allowed to do so. Recently, I believe the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment presented to the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission, just to give a briefing about what's happening in terms of employing different employees coming to the public sector from different cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds.</text>
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