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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-06-24" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Hove Level Crossing</name>
      <page num="3887" />
      <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000118">
        <heading>Hove Level Crossing</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-06-24">
            <name>Hove Level Crossing</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-06-24T14:41:04" />
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:41):</by>  Supplementary: how many tenants were in this sort of situation, where they were left in the lurch, being asked to move or having moved only to find that it was all for nothing?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Human Services</name>
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          <question date="2021-06-24">
            <name>Hove Level Crossing</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-06-24T14:41:20" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:41):</by>  I am not sure that the contents of the honourable member's question is internally consistent in that there are separate groups of people and I did outline yesterday that we had had seven tenants who had relocated and seven who had not. In terms of her language use 'in the lurch', I would just repeat that throughout this process the Housing Authority staff have been in close contact with tenants. Under the circumstances where relocation—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. Scriven interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000122">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order, the deputy leader! The deputy leader has asked the question.</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="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000124">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order, on both sides!</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>  I disagree with the characterisation of how the Housing Authority undertook the relocation process in that they did work closely with tenants in a sensitive way—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000127">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
        <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000128">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
        </text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000129">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order, the Leader of the Opposition!</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>  —in a sensitive way to find appropriate accommodation—</text>
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        <name>The Hon. C.M. Scriven</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. Scriven:</by>  You weren't sensitive, you'd known for several weeks.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000132">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. C.M. Scriven</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. Scriven:</by>  You let it continue. How sensitive is that?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000134">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
        <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000135">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202106242ccdebd5e07c4bd580000136">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! If you want the answer from the minister, then let her answer it, otherwise we will move on.</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>  —appropriate accommodation and some people have availed themselves of that and it will be their choice as to whether they return to where they were residing previously at Hove. From the information I have received, between the decision of cabinet not to proceed with the Hove crossing and the budget announcement, there was only one relocation.</text>
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