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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Aboriginal Remains, Riverlea Park</name>
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        <heading>Aboriginal Remains, Riverlea Park</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2023-10-31T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Aboriginal Remains, Riverlea Park</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO (15:08):</by>  I seek leave to give a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs regarding the Walker development at Riverlea.</text>
        <text id="202310314c9ea1aee8b6462cb0000242">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO:</by>  In a recent news article, the Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation asserted that specimens had been taken away from the site at Riverlea for radiocarbon testing and that results would be a few months away. My questions to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs are:</text>
        <text id="202310314c9ea1aee8b6462cb0000244">1.&amp;#x9;What detail or level of support has been provided to the Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation, and what feedback has been provided?</text>
        <text id="202310314c9ea1aee8b6462cb0000245">2.&amp;#x9;When did the minister last meet with this corporation?</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) (15:09):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her questions. I assume the questions are about the preamble the honourable member gave in relation to carbon dating and testing of ancestral remains. I think it was in another media report just yesterday that it was reported that there was a misunderstanding that has occurred somewhere and that no remains, according to that report, had been removed. I think that quoted the chair of the Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation in that article to say that, despite earlier comments in a media report, in fact no remains had been removed. </text>
        <text id="202310314c9ea1aee8b6462cb0000247">As with a question the Hon. Frank Pangallo asked earlier, I won't go into specifics of a process that is underway under the act at the moment, but often in these sorts of applications if there is a desire for destructive testing, such as radiocarbon dating of ancestral remains, they form part of an application process.</text>
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