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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-11-11T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2025-11-12T15:18:54+10:30" />
  <proceeding uid="8d96a837353a416a980f96794c90ae68">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <text id="202511110d20dc01731447fdb0001008">
      <heading>Answers to Questions</heading>
    </text>
    <subject uid="7b4eaf3b359940379e386882d4b8661c">
      <name>Legal Proceedings Costs</name>
      <text id="202511110d20dc01731447fdb0001009">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Legal Proceedings Costs</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162" uid="40842050fab843c988e2c4c476311c12" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2025-11-11T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Legal Proceedings Costs</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2025-11-12T00:00:00+10:30" />
        <text id="202511110d20dc01731447fdb0001010">
          <inserted>
            <timeStamp time="2025-11-12T00:00:00+10:30" />In reply to <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162" uid="40842050fab843c988e2c4c476311c12">the Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK </by>().16 September 2025).  </inserted>
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      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="18cc741eef924c8caeecf7b534068d58" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2025-11-11T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Legal Proceedings Costs</name>
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        <text id="202511110d20dc01731447fdb0001011">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="18cc741eef924c8caeecf7b534068d58">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Deputy Premier, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  I am advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="202511110d20dc01731447fdb0001012">
          <inserted>I have nothing to add to what was said by me on Tuesday 16 September 2025 in the council (<term>Hansard</term> p.9607) except to add that the state of South Australia, represented by the Crown Solicitor's Office, is the second respondent and nominal defendant covering the actions of South Australia Police and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions represented in the litigation commenced by Annabel Digance. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="202511110d20dc01731447fdb0001013">
          <inserted>Consistent with usual practice I will not comment on ongoing civil litigation while it is before the courts including making any comment about legal costs.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
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