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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-10-19T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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        <heading>Auditor-General's Report</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2022-10-19T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Auditor-General's Report</name>
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          <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (15:00):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before directing a question to the Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector regarding the Auditor-General's Report.</text>
        <text id="202210190df33df3689b44fa80000221">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK:</by>  Yesterday's Auditor-General's Report states:</text>
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          <inserted>Arbitrarily avoiding practices that public servants are expected to carry out for all other public expenditure transactions can be reasonably expected to risk undermining good practice.</inserted>
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        <text id="202210190df33df3689b44fa80000224">My question to the minister is: is he confident that all requirements under relevant legislation were complied with in relation to the payment of sporting club and local infrastructure grants? And I note in particular that relevant acts include the Public Sector Act, Public Finance and Audit Act and the Public Sector (Honesty and Accountability) Act.</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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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</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) (15:01):</by>  As I have said already in question time, I am not aware of anything that hasn't been complied with.</text>
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