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  <date date="2023-08-30T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Director of Public Prosecutions</name>
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        <heading>Director of Public Prosecutions</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2023-08-30T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Director of Public Prosecutions</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e">The Hon. F. PANGALLO (14:29):</by>  Supplementary question: the Attorney seems to be wallpapering over the real, significant issues that have also been discovered in this report.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3122" referenceid="c8a0c3187b2e476d8defa1809fecdf53">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER:</by>  Point of order: a supplementary question doesn't have a long, discursive introductory section.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I have listened to the point of order. The Hon. Mr Pangallo, with a supplementary you just have to ask the question. You can't have a lead-up.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e">The Hon. F. PANGALLO:</by>  Does the Attorney-General acknowledge it isn't just the work that the prosecutors are doing in that department but also the significant bullying and harassment of staff that has gone on?</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) (14:30):</by>  I thank the honourable member for the question. As is laid bare in the report, there are workplace cultural issues that have been identified and the director is committed to address.</text>
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