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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>McGowan, Dr C.</name>
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        <heading>McGowan, Dr C.</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5418" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C. BONAROS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-05-05">
            <name>McGowan, Dr C.</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-05-05T15:19:29" />
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          <by role="member" id="5418">The Hon. C. BONAROS (15:19):</by>  Supplementary: will the minister seek clarification as to whether Dr McGowan used the words 'my three bank teller girls, the ones who are always very keen to take your money'?</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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          <question date="2021-05-05">
            <name>McGowan, Dr C.</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:19):</by>  I will certainly put that to Dr McGowan, but as the honourable member has rightly pointed out, she was incorrect yesterday. I am much more inclined to take the word of my chief executive than hearsay.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  Than hearsay.</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. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  I think if we are going to spend question time after question time having a series of hearsay—</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! The Leader of the Opposition is out of order and so is the Hon. Ms Bourke and the Opposition Whip.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  As I said, it is unbecoming of this chamber to fixate on hearsay reports of statements—</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! You are running out of your own question time.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  As I said in my answer to the honourable member, I will seek clarification whether the chief executive used the phrase that she gave. That is not a phrase that has been put to me before. I will put it to the chief executive.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Final supplementary, the Hon. Ms Bonaros.</text>
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