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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-06-15T00:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Return to Work Scheme</name>
      <text id="20220615f584cecb68774558a0000226">
        <heading>Return to Work Scheme</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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            <name>Return to Work Scheme</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (15:00):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector regarding Return to Work.</text>
        <text id="20220615f584cecb68774558a0000228">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="6706">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI:</by>  The legislative changes proposed to the Return to Work scheme were prepared by parliamentary counsel at 8.55pm on 14 June 2022. My question to the minister is: was the draft bill approved by cabinet prior to introduction to the other place and, if so, when was it approved by cabinet?</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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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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) (15:01):</by>  Again, following on from the procedure adopted by my predecessor who stood in this exact place, the Hon. Rob Lucas, I am certainly not going to go into anything that cabinet does or does not decide, but certainly as a general process cabinet gives—</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. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  Of course it does. When did cabinet approve it? I am not going to go into any of the deliberations of cabinet.</text>
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