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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-08-26" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Homelessness</name>
      <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000087">
        <heading>Homelessness</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-08-26">
            <name>Homelessness</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2021-08-26T14:29:12" />
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000088">
          <timeStamp time="2021-08-26T14:29:12" />
          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:29):</by>  Final supplementary: is the minister concerned that this saga takes away from the work of the task force and is an embarrassment to the partners that are part of that task force?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Human Services</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-08-26">
            <name>Homelessness</name>
          </question>
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        <startTime time="2021-08-26T14:29:29" />
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000089">
          <timeStamp time="2021-08-26T14:29:29" />
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (14:29):</by>  Mr President, the only embarrassment should be felt by members of the Australian Labor Party for undermining—</text>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000090">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000091">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! I would like to listen to the answer and I would hope the opposition would too.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000092">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —the goodwill and the hard work of a cross-agency, cross-government department—</text>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000093">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000094">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000095">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —which I remind him—</text>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000096">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000097">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  No, no, no. The minister should not be pointing. The minister should not point. Has the minister concluded her answer?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000098">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  No.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000099">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Minister, continue.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000100">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  That has had advice from Elders, and all of these—</text>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000101">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <page num="4039" />
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000102">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  Just because the Leader of the Opposition—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000103">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Leader of the Opposition!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000104">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —is out of the loop—</text>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000105">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000106">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —that is not my fault. If the Leader of the Opposition doesn't know about the good cross-agency work that is taking place he shouldn't be—</text>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000107">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000108">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! I can't hear the response.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000109">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —undermining the good work which is essentially about—</text>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000110">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000111">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  —the safety of people—</text>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000112">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000113">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>Members interjecting</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000114">
          <by role="office">Members interjecting:</by>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210826c5fc863b42ec4acdb0000115">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! Minister, resume your seat. If the opposition doesn't, I think, revise their ways in the house today then they may see me remove a question from them. We are going to move to the second question of the Leader of the Opposition.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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