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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-11-26T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Harassment in the Parliamentary Workplace</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Harassment in the Parliamentary Workplace</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2024-11-26T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Harassment in the Parliamentary Workplace</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f">the Hon. T.A. FRANKS </by>().1 May 2024).  </inserted>
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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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          <question date="2024-11-26T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Harassment in the Parliamentary Workplace</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 Special Minister of State has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The report by the Equal Opportunity Commission into a Review of Harassment in the South Australian Parliament Workplace makes 16 recommendations. The recommendations are wide ranging and include changes to the standing orders, the introduction of a code of conduct for members of parliament, the implementation of internal policies by political parties and certain amendments to the Equal Opportunity Act 1984.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The state government has introduced the Statutes Amendment (Parliament—Executive Officer and Clerks) Bill 2024 to provide for an executive officer to be appointed to the parliament to assist in implementing the recommendations.</inserted>
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