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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-05-02T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <endPage num="2530" />
  <dateModified time="2023-07-06T10:04:05+09:30" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Attorney-General's Department</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Attorney-General's Department</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="2023-05-02T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Attorney-General's Department</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162">the Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK </by>().7 March 2023).  </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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <question date="2023-05-02T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Attorney-General's Department</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 am advised that the answers to the honourable member's questions are:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;24.8 FTE.</inserted>
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        <text id="20230502b84ac254763b4db0b0000995">
          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;21.4 FTE. </inserted>
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          <inserted>These answers include policy staff across the Attorney-General's Department in administrative units which were in the department both prior to and following the 2022 state election. I have not included the policy officers in business units that they were not within the Attorney-General's Department under the previous government.</inserted>
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          <inserted>With respect to legislation, I note that many of the legislative reform proposals of the former Liberal government required significant amendment or revision prior to introduction to the Fifty-Fifth Parliament. In addition, I have introduced many bills which are new policy initiatives of the Malinauskas Labor government.</inserted>
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        <text id="20230502b84ac254763b4db0b0000998">
          <inserted>I thank all the staff who are working hard to implement the policy platform of the Malinauskas Labor government, which was comprehensively endorsed by South Australians at the last state election.</inserted>
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