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      <name>Chief Justice</name>
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        <heading>Chief Justice</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
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            <name>Chief Justice</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e">The Hon. F. PANGALLO (15:11):</by>  Supplementary arising from the question: does the Attorney-General not see that this very public spat between the Chief Justice and the legal fraternity is actually quite damaging, and certainly in the community?</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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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Chief Justice</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) (15:11):</by>  I've got to say that I have not had one single member of the public who is not a barrister express their views about this issue to me at all. I have a lot of people, whether it is through friends, colleagues, and through other ways, express views about a whole lot of things in South Australia, including the cost of housing and the desirability for their children to be able to buy a house in the future, cost-of-living issues—a whole range of matters—but outside some barristers, I have not had a single other member of the public come to me and raise this as a concern. The honourable member may have people beating down his door raising concerns about what lawyers call themselves, but it is not raised as a general issue from members of the public with me at all.</text>
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