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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-04-09T14:15:00+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="4362" referenceid="9196416ed01f41d0801ce030b03cd39a" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.S. LEE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2024-04-09T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>First Nations Voice to Parliament</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4362" referenceid="9196416ed01f41d0801ce030b03cd39a">The Hon. J.S. LEE (Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:10):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation prior to asking a question of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs regarding the South Australian Aboriginal Voice to Parliament elections.</text>
        <text id="2024040982d60647060e479490000173">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.S. LEE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4362" referenceid="9196416ed01f41d0801ce030b03cd39a">The Hon. J.S. LEE:</by>  It was reported that of approximately 30,000 eligible Aboriginal South Australians less than 10 per cent voted in the South Australian Aboriginal Voice to Parliament elections. My questions to the Attorney-General or the minister are:</text>
        <text id="2024040982d60647060e479490000175">1.&amp;#x9;How many press releases went out under the minister or the Attorney-General's name regarding the Voice vote in 2024?</text>
        <text id="2024040982d60647060e479490000176">2.&amp;#x9;How many media conferences did the minister lead or take part in to promote the Voice vote in 2024?</text>
        <text id="2024040982d60647060e479490000177">3.&amp;#x9;How many community engagement forums and meetings did the minister hold to promote and inform about the Voice to Parliament?</text>
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        <text id="2024040982d60647060e479490000178">4.&amp;#x9;What level of engagement activities has the Premier himself undertaken in comparison to those by the minister to promote the Voice election?</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="2024-04-09T15:11:41+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) (15:11):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her questions. In relation to the first question, I don't have the exact number, but it would be quite a number of media releases post referendum when we concentrated fully on the SA Voice elections. In relation to media conferences, a number of them; I don't remember the exact number, but there were a number of media conferences.</text>
        <text id="2024040982d60647060e479490000180">There were even more media interviews if you counted media conferences and media interviews I conducted since October last year on our Voice elections in Adelaide and regional media. I suspect it would likely come to dozens. As I have said before, anyone would just have to look at my social media to see the dozens and dozens and dozens of posts about the Voice elections. Did I do more media about it than the Premier? Yes; I'm the minister.</text>
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