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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Child Sexual Abuse</name>
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        <heading>Child Sexual Abuse</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON</name>
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            <name>Child Sexual Abuse</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6928" referenceid="c092620e916d44159f200e0e1316c6a8" uid="0554ef7648b646ffbfb286047c904489">The Hon. L.A. HENDERSON (15:29):</by>  Supplementary: has your federal counterpart at any point in response to your correspondence indicated a date or a month or a year that they intend to introduce legislation to close this legal loophole?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
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            <name>Child Sexual Abuse</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="7464a41aecb34653941aa05be315642b">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Deputy Premier, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (15:29):</by>  I don't have a timeline. I would like to see one, and I am sure the honourable member opposite would join me in liking to see one.</text>
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