<!--The Official Report of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia are covered by parliamentary privilege. Republication by others is not afforded the same protection and may result in exposure to legal liability if the material is defamatory. You may copy and make use of excerpts of proceedings where (1) you attribute the Parliament as the source, (2) you assume the risk of liability if the manner of your use is defamatory, (3) you do not use the material for the purpose of advertising, satire or ridicule, or to misrepresent members of Parliament, and (4) your use of the extracts is fair, accurate and not misleading. Copyright in the Official Report of Parliamentary Debates is held by the Attorney-General of South Australia.-->
<hansard id="" tocId="" xml:lang="EN-AU" schemaVersion="1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2007/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="hansard_1_0.xsd">
  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2015-09-23" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>House of Assembly</house>
  <venue></venue>
  <reviewStage>published</reviewStage>
  <startPage num="2627" />
  <endPage num="2724" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Caesarean Section Standards</name>
      <text id="20150923650f490d972840deb0000521">
        <heading>Caesarean Section Standards</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="546" kind="question">
        <name>Mr WILLIAMS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">MacKillop</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-09-23">
            <name>Caesarean Section Standards</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2015-09-23T15:02:23" />
        <page num="2663" />
        <text id="20150923650f490d972840deb0000522">
          <timeStamp time="2015-09-23T15:02:23" />
          <by role="member" id="546">Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop) (15:02):</by>  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?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="627" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Playford</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health Industries</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2015-09-23">
            <name>Caesarean Section Standards</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <startTime time="2015-09-23T15:02:41" />
        <text id="20150923650f490d972840deb0000523">
          <timeStamp time="2015-09-23T15:02:41" />
          <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) (15:02):</by>  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.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
</hansard>