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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-09-28T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>First Nations Voice To Parliament</name>
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        <heading>First Nations Voice To Parliament</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="2023-09-28T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>First Nations Voice To Parliament</name>
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        <startTime time="2023-09-28T15:01:41+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f">The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:01):</by>  Supplementary: given that the then Liberal government announced in May 2021 they would bring a Voice to Parliament and have moved two pieces of legislation to effect such a thing, did they lie to the electorate at the 2022 election and should they now apologise?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162">
        <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>  Point of order: the use of the word 'lie' is inappropriate in parliament.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Minister, answer the question.</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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        <startTime time="2023-09-28T15:02:17+09:30" />
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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) (15:02):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question. It does raise a very good point. This is not the Liberal Party that we have seen in the past. This is an exceptionally conservative, far-right version of the party. It's the same thing we are seeing in other states.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order! Enough!</text>
        <text id="20230928be3d0f8c127f417490000762">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5413" referenceid="07ef1306959a44c38acfb7dce9a031db">The Hon. E.S. Bourke interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The Hon. Ms Bourke, I manage to quieten the opposition and then you chime in. Minister, please finish your answer so we can move on. You are finished; okay.</text>
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