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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>Tabled Documents</name>
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        <heading>Tabled Documents</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-09-17T04:45:00+09:30">
            <name>Tabled Documents</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3126" referenceid="5c423631416444aeb0c7e273b130ee55" uid="34f1de045b584f639a642d08bceacf11">The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD (14:23):</by>  Supplementary: does the Attorney admit his error, as outlined by the Hon. Nicola Centofanti, and will he apologise for it?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  I am not sure that the Attorney—</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Excuse me, just hang on. I am not sure that the Attorney actually referred to that at all in his answer, but then I couldn't really be sure as to exactly what was said because of the shouting and screaming.</text>
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        <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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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="1a5c330002624389959d492c675741d3">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (14:23):</by>  When something is tabled and there has been an error by someone in the public sector that they have notified I am happy to come in and make sure that's corrected. That is very different to a member of parliament making something up—having an author say, 'I have never authored a paper that someone's referred to.'</text>
        <text id="2025091740a85469efc14fdf90000055">They are stark, stark differences, and I thank the Hon. Dennis Hood for allowing me the opportunity to reiterate that. I am not sure what he has got against the Hon. Frank Pangallo that he wants me to stand up and say it again, but there are stark differences. When a member of parliament may have just made it up they should man up and say so.</text>
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