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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-09-06T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <heading>Question Time</heading>
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    <subject>
      <name>Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union</name>
      <text id="20220906437b95c0e1204f1da0000166">
        <heading>Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" 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="2022-09-06T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-09-06T14:43:23+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:43):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Attorney-General a question regarding the CFMEU.</text>
        <text id="20220906437b95c0e1204f1da0000168">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question" continued="true">
        <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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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI:</by>  The Premier, on 8 August of this year, told ABC Radio Adelaide that his backflip to return the $125,000 donation made by the CFMEU was the result of vandalism and that it is the exact behaviour he would not tolerate. He said:</text>
        <text id="20220906437b95c0e1204f1da0000170">
          <inserted>We weren't going to jump the gun unfairly, but I think that what occurred on Friday night is a demonstration of exactly the sort of thing that we don't think is appropriate and that's why I made this decision.</inserted>
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        <text id="20220906437b95c0e1204f1da0000171">My question to the Attorney-General is: given the behaviour already displayed in South Australia, what concerns does he hold that South Australia's construction and building sites will become akin to those in Victoria, where just last week an all-out brawl broke out at the North East Link building site after allegations that the CFMEU had been forcing workers and building firms to switch to companies aligned with them?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-09-06T14:44:27+09:30" />
        <text id="20220906437b95c0e1204f1da0000172">
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:44):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question. We have had for a very long time in South Australia a relatively harmonious industrial relations environment that has been characterised by goodwill on both sides and low disputations, and I expect that to continue and I look forward to that continuing.</text>
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