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  <date date="2022-05-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Wortley, Hon. R.p.</name>
      <text id="20220518aa75c5eaca824eb7b0000347">
        <heading>Wortley, Hon. R.P.</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2022-05-18">
            <name>Wortley, Hon. R.P.</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-05-18T14:24:25" />
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          <by role="member" id="6706">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:24):</by>  Could the leader please confirm if the Hon. Russell Wortley has made the promised donation to the Royal Life Saving Society?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20220518aa75c5eaca824eb7b0000349">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You have mentioned the Hon. Russell Wortley, so—</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-05-18T14:24:35" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Attorney-General, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:24):</by>  Yes, I mentioned the Hon. Russell Wortley and I will repeat what I said in the first part of my question. I can go through the whole lot again, actually, sir. I have known the Hon. Russell Wortley for some 20-something years, and I have always found the Hon. Russell Wortley to be honourable and to do what he says he is going to do. That's how I have known the Hon. Russell Wortley, and when he says he is going to do something he will usually do something.</text>
        <text id="20220518aa75c5eaca824eb7b0000351">But it's quite extraordinary that this story is coming out. The story about the Hon. Russell Wortley—</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="20220518aa75c5eaca824eb7b0000353">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  —has been put in the media—</text>
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        <name>An honourable member</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20220518aa75c5eaca824eb7b0000355">
          <by role="office">An honourable member:</by>  By who?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  By the member for Unley, David Pisoni. Extraordinary that it wasn't a spokesperson for any portfolio area, it was the Whip who is trying to suck oxygen from his colleagues—</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="20220518aa75c5eaca824eb7b0000358">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  —to try to have a little bit of relevance after suffering an 8.8 per cent swing against him in the seat of Unley. It is an extraordinary thing that we are seeing such infighting, such a scramble for that little bit of media oxygen in the Liberal Party. Long may that continue.</text>
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