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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Whistleblower Protection</name>
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        <heading>Whistleblower Protection</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" uid="9786e9abc99b469e8b6ef32d3b138737" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Whistleblower Protection</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" uid="9786e9abc99b469e8b6ef32d3b138737">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO (Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:48):</by>  Supplementary: is the Attorney able to outline how many breaches have been investigated or penalised since the introduction of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2018? I appreciate you may have to take that on notice.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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            <name>Whistleblower Protection</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="05ba25fb90f34b89a9bbf3826195ab94">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Deputy Premier, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (14:48):</by>  I am happy to, and it might be even after this. I am not sure what the honourable member means by how many breaches—how many times there have been disclosures made under the public disclosure regime?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" uid="4a7542c952d642eb90ea7b6406938eaa">
        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" uid="4a7542c952d642eb90ea7b6406938eaa">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO:</by>  Have there been any breaches of the act itself that have been investigated, and what penalties have been, I guess, provided to people who are in breach?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="ac6cb341682e423f8d987fed1acc8bf2" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <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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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="ac6cb341682e423f8d987fed1acc8bf2">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  The question is, as I understand it: how many breaches have there been of the public disclosure regime? I am happy to go away and see. I am not sure figures will be able to be found, but if there are I am happy to see if I can report them.</text>
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