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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-08-29T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <startPage num="6181" />
  <endPage num="6287" />
  <dateModified time="2024-08-30T15:32:53+09:30" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>APY Lands</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>APY Lands</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="3126" referenceid="5c423631416444aeb0c7e273b130ee55" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2024-08-29T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>APY Lands</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="202408294f727a1cf30d462fa0002561">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="3126" referenceid="5c423631416444aeb0c7e273b130ee55">the Hon. D.G.E. HOOD </by>().18 June 2024).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2024-08-29T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>APY Lands</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):</by>  The Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services has advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="202408294f727a1cf30d462fa0002563">
          <inserted>SAPOL's Far North Local Service Area provides nine sworn full-time equivalent (FTE) positions that are permanently stationed on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands).</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202408294f727a1cf30d462fa0002564">
          <inserted>One sergeant is allocated to each of the four communities of Amata, Ernabella, Mimili and Murputja. The vacant sergeant positions in Mimili and Ernabella have recently been subject to a selection process to fill, and the outcome of that process was published in the South Australia Police Gazette on 24 July 2024.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202408294f727a1cf30d462fa0002565">
          <inserted>Five specialist staff are located at the multi-agency hub at Umuwa and all positions are currently filled. These five positions comprise of the Senior Sergeant First Class (Officer in Charge, APY), a Detective Brevet Sergeant Investigator and three Family Violence Investigators.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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