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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-08-29T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Code of Ethics</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Code of Ethics</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2023-08-29T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Code of Ethics</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f">the Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>().1 June 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="2023-08-29T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Code of Ethics</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:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Clerk of the Legislative Council has undertaken an investigation, the outcomes of which the President informed the council on 13 June 2023.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The legal employer of the trainee whom this matter relates to, is the Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF). The Electorate Services division of DTF has not conducted a separate investigation into the matter. Neither has the Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment been approached to investigate a potential breach of the Code of Ethics.</inserted>
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