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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-09-16T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Personal Explanation</name>
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      <heading>Personal Explanation</heading>
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      <name>Budget and Finance Committee</name>
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        <heading>Budget and Finance Committee</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="4db31b353bd04344aaa6b528cd570d55" kind="speech">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="4db31b353bd04344aaa6b528cd570d55">The Hon. F. PANGALLO (15:38):</by>  I seek leave to make a personal explanation.</text>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000328">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="a804c9a8600b4758aeac3eb0d237c49d" kind="speech" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="a804c9a8600b4758aeac3eb0d237c49d">The Hon. F. PANGALLO:</by>  Today, Minister Koutsantonis made a series of accusations about me over links I provided to PIRSA after a Budget and Finance Committee. The links were sent in error, an administrative error, like the Premier's signing off on a $1 million grant that should not have happened. My mistake did not cost taxpayers a cent. Further, I admit my errors, unlike many across the chamber and in the other place. Further, I did not mislead parliament. There are other links—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000331">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000332">
          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="1fab7e34ee61482e8b6ff733b447337a">The Hon. F. PANGALLO:</by>  I did not. You must listen.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000334">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000335">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. Maher interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000336">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Attorney!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="099316042d244a939f937602ce27d78e">The Hon. F. PANGALLO:</by>  There are other links to studies about connection between HABs and desal plants I did not refer to and which I did not provide. In relation to the Richlen paper, that paper does exist, but I acknowledge the information I received on the author was incorrect and I apologise—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000339">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="21e803053e9f4d77b09c4cbba8158036" kind="speech" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000340">
          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="21e803053e9f4d77b09c4cbba8158036">The Hon. F. PANGALLO:</by>  —for the error again.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000342">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! This is a brief personal explanation that is taking far too long because of interjections. The Hon. Mr Pangallo, finish your statement and let's get on with it.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000344">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! Enough!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="47aaa6c3c9a0435f8e47e7100f031a74" kind="interjection">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</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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        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000345">
          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="47aaa6c3c9a0435f8e47e7100f031a74">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Unbelievable.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="c7c535ed08284652aef19dc190ccf0ff" kind="speech" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000346">
          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="c7c535ed08284652aef19dc190ccf0ff">The Hon. F. PANGALLO:</by>  Your turn will come. Ghazay F. Alotaibi is the author of 'A review of harmful algal blooms (HABs) and their potential impacts on desalination facilities', <term>Desalination and Water Treatment</term>, 252. I seek leave to table that report.</text>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000347">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="4da9cac77c7947ee9b380715c7497830" kind="speech" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000348">
          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="4da9cac77c7947ee9b380715c7497830">The Hon. F. PANGALLO:</by>  There are also papers by Mohamed N. Gomaa et al., and those papers are: 'Low diversity triggers harmful algal bloom (HAB) occurrence adjacent to desalination plants along the Red Sea'—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000350">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="6fbf8e11b7e345d59fbd198726e8369a" kind="speech" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. F. PANGALLO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000351">
          <by role="member" id="5419" referenceid="10d60568293c40059d4659591683f18e" uid="6fbf8e11b7e345d59fbd198726e8369a">The Hon. F. PANGALLO:</by>  —<term>Desalination and Water Treatment</term>, 114, 2018, pages 1 to 12, and also another paper by Mohamed N. Gomaa et al., 'A model to predict HAB occurrence near desalination plants in the Red Sea', <term>Desalination and Water Treatment</term>, 129, 2018. I seek leave to table those documents as well.</text>
        <text id="20250916871ac6c2d7db4e08b0000352">Leave granted.</text>
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