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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-09-17T14:15:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>SARDI Fish Deaths</name>
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        <heading>SARDI Fish Deaths</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="f7067ff703a448fda262a73d2004b69a" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2025-09-17T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>SARDI Fish Deaths</name>
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        <startTime time="2025-09-17T14:40:38+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="f7067ff703a448fda262a73d2004b69a">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:40):</by>  Supplementary.</text>
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          <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>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Attorney!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="67d8f6642c414ad4be02631e716b762c" kind="interjection">
        <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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="67d8f6642c414ad4be02631e716b762c">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  It's going to be difficult.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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        <text id="2025091740a85469efc14fdf90000139">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Attorney! How about I adjudicate on this? I will listen to the supplementary question.</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="2025091740a85469efc14fdf90000141">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! Ask your supplementary question and I will listen to it.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="1f8e14ddb1cc481fbcc6e90cefdb08be" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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        <text id="2025091740a85469efc14fdf90000142">
          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" uid="1f8e14ddb1cc481fbcc6e90cefdb08be">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI:</by>  How can the minister be confident in her answer and say there is no direct evidence linking the dredging trial and the fish deaths when her department didn't test water quality for hydrogen sulphide?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Not even close to a supplementary question.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="d271bcd87d064a07b8b3524a7520df8c">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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        <text id="2025091740a85469efc14fdf90000144">
          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="d271bcd87d064a07b8b3524a7520df8c">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  May I answer it anyway, Mr President?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Well, answer it, minister.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="d3a6a26fee0346db9d3f86fbf350c35e" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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        <startTime time="2025-09-17T14:41:22+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="d3a6a26fee0346db9d3f86fbf350c35e">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development, Minister for Forest Industries) (14:41):</by>  These matters have been well aerated during the many, many months that the opposition has been raising this. We know that they are seeking to have some kind of conspiracy uncovered, but we also know that they don't need evidence. They think it's fine to come to a conclusion without evidence.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="c237df7003cb48c6971aa680ab99c9a8" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Forest Industries</name>
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        <text id="2025091740a85469efc14fdf90000149">
          <by role="member" id="5412" referenceid="f6f1a5ffd4774774bcc2b9675cc1d44d" uid="c237df7003cb48c6971aa680ab99c9a8">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN:</by>  I guess, very similar to the Hon. Frank Pangallo, they would like to just make up the evidence, but they are not doing that. Acknowledging there is no direct evidence, they say, 'Doesn't matter there is no direct evidence. We think it was it anyway.'</text>
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