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Legislative Council - Fifty-Second Parliament, Second Session (52-2)
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O'LOUGHLIN, MR D.

The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS (14:43): Supplementary question: does the Minister for State/Local Government Relations have any official contact with the Local Government Association?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, Minister for Forests, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (14:44): Of course I do, in relation to regional development matters. That is what my role is and I have outlined those machinery-of-government changes several times. I am no longer the minister responsible for the state Local Government Act. I know that members have a lot of trouble absorbing this—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. G.E. GAGO: —but I am no longer responsible for the state Local Government Act. The Attorney-General is responsible, so those matters relating to codes of conduct, conflict, and other matters that might—

The Hon. D.W. Ridgway: That's because you stuffed up Burnside so badly they wouldn't give it back to you.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Ridgway will come to order!

The Hon. G.E. GAGO: —pertain to those provisions are the responsibility of the minister responsible for the act, and that is the Attorney-General. It is not rocket science. It is very simple, and I have outlined it several times in this chamber.

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