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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Save the QEH Forum</name>
      <text id="20150225a1965cab9f7a420090000404">
        <heading>Save the QEH Forum</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="1807" kind="question">
        <name>Dr McFETRIDGE</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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          <question date="2015-02-25">
            <name>Save the QEH Forum</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1807">Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (14:27):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister assure the house that the digital recording of a SA Health employee's involvement at the Save the QEH forum last night by a member of the ministerial office will not be used in any action against the employee?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Playford</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health Industries</name>
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          <question date="2015-02-25">
            <name>Save the QEH Forum</name>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:27):</by>  I am glad that the member for Morphett should raise the forum last night, because I was invited, I understand, and I think the Premier was as well, to go along to that forum. We were not able to attend, but I asked Professor Dorothy Keefe to attend, to provide information to the forum about what was proposed for The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.</text>
        <text id="20150225a1965cab9f7a420090000407">I have to say the treatment of Professor Dorothy Keefe at the hands of Kirsten Alexander was nothing but disgraceful—absolutely disgraceful. For someone of Dorothy Keefe's eminence to be heckled by a ridiculous character like Kirsten Alexander just defies belief—absolutely defies belief. Dorothy Keefe does more in her morning to save the lives of South Australians with cancer than—</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20150225a1965cab9f7a420090000408">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Point of order.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343">
        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20150225a1965cab9f7a420090000409">
          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER:</by>  The question was in fact in relation to the actions of a member of the minister's staff.</text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20150225a1965cab9f7a420090000410">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  I do not uphold the point of order. Minister.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20150225a1965cab9f7a420090000411">
          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  Professor Dorothy Keefe would do more in her morning for the lives of South Australians than Kirsten Alexander would do in a lifetime, and to be heckled down, to be screamed down, by someone like that is just absolutely appalling. I do not know about my staff recording or otherwise what happened out there but, I tell you what, I would be very, very interested to see it if they have, because I would be very interested for the South Australian public to see the behaviour of Kirsten Alexander and the disrespect that was shown to someone of the eminence of Dorothy Keefe. It is absolutely disgraceful, and if the opposition want to side with Kirsten Alexander as part of this they are more than welcome to.</text>
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