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      <name>District Court</name>
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        <name>The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6928" referenceid="c092620e916d44159f200e0e1316c6a8">The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON (15:28):</by>  My question is to the Attorney-General regarding our courts. Can the minister advise what is the average backlog in the District Court, with particular reference to criminal matters?</text>
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        <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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          <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) (15:28):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question. There are a number of metrics used in reports, particularly the RoGS (Report on Government Services) that comes out each year. I will go back and check, but I think the latest ones were discussed pretty thoroughly during the estimates committee process. There are a number of metrics in terms of different sorts of cases, both civil and criminal, and different types of cases of backlogs and finalisation, but I will go back and have a look as I suspect they are in the answers to the estimates questions.</text>
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