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      <name>Vicarious Liability</name>
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        <heading>Vicarious Liability</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON</name>
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          <question date="2025-04-03T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Vicarious Liability</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6928" referenceid="c092620e916d44159f200e0e1316c6a8" uid="aa2f641faa7542d381fc998e30d852ee">The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON (15:12):</by>  Supplementary: can the minister please advise if, depending on outcomes from further work being done, the government will be legislating to look at retrospective vicarious liability legislation?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Vicarious Liability</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="c82fa0ca6fdc4315b22c146dd1b42418">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (15:12):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question. It is too early to say that. Certainly, I have had a number of meetings and representations with people and groups who have very different views on this issue. From memory, I think Victoria is the jurisdiction that is leading the further work for the Standing Council of Attorneys-General. We will wait for that work to be completed before we say anything about whether there will be law change, but it certainly remains on the agenda.</text>
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