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  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>South Coast District Hospital</name>
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        <heading>South Coast District Hospital</heading>
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        <name>Mr PENGILLY</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Finniss</electorate>
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          <question date="2015-09-23">
            <name>South Coast District Hospital</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3121">Mr PENGILLY (Finniss) (15:08):</by>  The indelicate member for Finniss has a supplementary, sir, for the Minister for Health. Can the Minister for Health inform the house as to whether doctors are being brought in from interstate to fill the vacancies at the South Coast District Hospital as locums?</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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            <name>Minister for the Arts</name>
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            <name>Minister for Health Industries</name>
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          <question date="2015-09-23">
            <name>South Coast District Hospital</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) (15:09):</by>  I would need to find out, but it's not unusual for us to recruit doctors from interstate for not just South Coast, but from right across our health system often doctors come from interstate and it's something, as health minister, I welcome. It's very good to have doctors—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="1804">Ms Chapman interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. J.J. SNELLING</name>
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          <by role="member" id="627">The Hon. J.J. SNELLING:</by>  —with interstate experience who want to come and work in our system. Contrary to the interjection of the deputy leader, you don't in fact need a 457 visa to work here if you are just coming from interstate.</text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for Schubert.</text>
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