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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Public Sector Integrity</name>
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        <heading>Public Sector Integrity</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:37):</by>  Supplementary: has the Attorney-General sought to find out who is responsible for the distribution of private and confidential information originally given to his office?</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>Public Sector Integrity</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) (14:38):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question, but as I have said, I have already answered that question: I don't know who did that, who gave that to the media.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</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:</by>  I have answered that question publicly and I have answered that in here. As I said in my previous answer, I can understand why they are so keen for these sorts of distractions, and I can understand why it's the Leader of the Opposition prosecuting this, because Liberals talking to us are blaming the moderates of their party for the current state that they find the Dunstan campaign in.</text>
        <text id="202403052e766b860c7046dda0000129">The conservatives I think are unfairly blaming the moderates. We see in this chamber an almost complete takeover by the moderates and this is just a further nail in the coffin. I have to say, I think good government deserves a good opposition and the way that the Liberals are treating the moderates and blaming them for the problems in the Dunstan campaign doesn't lead to good government.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! Before we have the supplementary question, it must arise from the original answer, which I did struggle to hear at times because there was just too much noise. Let's have your supplementary question and let me hear the answer, the honourable Leader of the Opposition.</text>
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