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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-10-18T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Indigenous Culture</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Indigenous Culture</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3126" referenceid="5c423631416444aeb0c7e273b130ee55" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2022-10-18T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="116">
            <name>Indigenous Culture</name>
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          <inserted>116 <by role="member" id="3126" referenceid="5c423631416444aeb0c7e273b130ee55">The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD </by>().7 September 2022).  </inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Are South Australian children participating in the traditional Aboriginal 'Walkabout' rite of passage?</inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Have South Australian schools made allowances for students to participate in the Aboriginal 'Walkabout'?</inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;What is the government's position on children participating in the Aboriginal 'Walkabout'?</inserted>
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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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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2022-10-18T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="116">
            <name>Indigenous Culture</name>
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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):</by>  I have been advised :</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Department for Education is committed to becoming a culturally responsive organisation. Schools work individually with families to ensure that children's and families' cultural connections, identity and wellbeing are enhanced and maintained through local school processes.</inserted>
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