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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
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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>Gender Pay Gap</name>
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        <heading>Gender Pay Gap</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="2021-11-16">
            <name>Gender Pay Gap</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (15:17):</by>  Can the minister—</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! Leader, you've got a member on his feet behind you, trying to ask a supplementary.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY:</by>  Can the minister advise this chamber what specific policies and measures contributed to any reduction in the gender pay gap in South Australia?</text>
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        <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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        <startTime time="2021-11-16T15:17:40" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:17):</by>  Clearly, jobs and entrepreneurship and supporting all small businesses has meant the reduction in the pay gap.</text>
        <text id="20211116aad2904799e5476890000358">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. Hunter interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Hunter!</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. Hunter interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20211116aad2904799e5476890000361">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Hunter's colleagues are going to miss out on a question because of you in a moment.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20211116aad2904799e5476890000362">
          <by role="member" id="2742">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  Clearly, the people of South Australia took things into their own hands in 2018 and voted for a Liberal government.</text>
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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>  The Hon. Mr Simms has the call.</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>  The Hon. Mr Simms is on his feet and will be heard in silence.</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>  Government members are not helping.</text>
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