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      <name>Heffernan, Mr T.</name>
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        <heading>Heffernan, Mr T.</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
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            <name>Heffernan, Mr T.</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e">The Hon. F. PANGALLO (14:42):</by>  Supplementary: if the Attorney has asked questions of himself about it, is he going to do something about it rather than just let the matter go away when such serious allegations were made? If it happened anywhere else in the community there would be an uproar.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</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) (14:42):</by>  I thank the honourable member for his question. No, I haven't resolved if changes should be made. As I said, I'm not going to jump very quickly into something that might have a perverse outcome that many victim survivors wouldn't want and that is creating incentives for people not to resign and creating a situation where, by changing something, you are positively creating incentives for people who may have committed things that breach the Judicial Conduct Commissioner Act to stick around for as long as they can.</text>
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