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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-03-19T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Lobbyists</name>
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        <heading>Lobbyists</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2024-03-19T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Lobbyists</name>
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        <startTime time="2024-03-19T14:47:27+10:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:47):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before directing a question to the Attorney-General regarding the Lobbyists Act.</text>
        <text id="20240319d150f9ac9b394f7890000112">Leave granted.</text>
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        <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>  There are several freedom of information documents published by various media relating to the Labor candidate for Dunstan. The media articles and reports regarding those documents call into question a conflict of interest between her prior position as a staff member or adviser of a sitting member of the Legislative Council and her co-current position as an associate director of a defence company owned by her husband, who sought meetings with ministers.</text>
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        <text id="20240319d150f9ac9b394f7890000114">My question for the Attorney-General is: is he confident that all of his government's ministers have complied in full with their responsibilities under the South Australian Lobbyists Act?</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) (14:48):</by>  I am not aware that any have not.</text>
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