Caesarean Section Standards

Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop) (15:02): A supplementary: can the minister explain then to the house why he believes that a standard would be appropriate in metropolitan Adelaide but expectant mothers and their babies should be treated with a relatively second-class service in regional South Australia?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (15:02): Once again, the member for MacKillop has not listened to the answer to the question. My answer is that I do not believe and do not accept that at any stage we would accept the Naracoorte doctors and women in Naracoorte to be birthed under standards that in any way breach well-accepted medical standards and what are the guidelines that are issued from the department. You can say it until you are blue I the face, but it's simply untrue.