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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Road Maintenance</name>
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        <heading>Road Maintenance</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" uid="7476b164a39e4d7a8eacdb6cbe8f0b9f" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Road Maintenance</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" uid="7476b164a39e4d7a8eacdb6cbe8f0b9f">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO (Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:23):</by>  Supplementary.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  This is going to be problematic, isn't it? The honourable Deputy Leader of the Opposition.</text>
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        <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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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="c2461caec1df4e9eb43c0c227677ca72">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  I may have to rule it out, sir.</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 listening, and you are not ruling anything in or out.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. Maher</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Deputy Premier</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="fd4bee271cb44273b2642eaf16d7c705">The Hon. K.J. Maher:</by>  Sorry, sir—trying to help.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You are not very helpful. The honourable Deputy Leader of the Opposition, I will listen to your supplementary.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" uid="851d95fe45e94f15bc3415098d3fba20">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO:</by>  I would like to know when the minister intends to get back to me with a response, given it's the last day, or potentially the last day, of sitting. Would you like to come back to me? It's an important question. The Tour Down Under is in January. Maybe you should be—are you able to maybe get some information before the end of question time then?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Infrastructure and Transport</name>
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            <name>Minister for Autism</name>
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            <name>Minister for Emergency Services and Correctional Services</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5413" referenceid="07ef1306959a44c38acfb7dce9a031db" uid="6a5074bccf66479292efe3d0f78ca231">The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Autism) (15:23):</by>  You literally just asked me the question. I don't know how much clearer I have to be. I said I would look into it.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  How about we move on to the toecutter, the Hon. Mr Ngo.</text>
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