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  <date date="2018-08-02" />
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Medical Interns</name>
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          <heading>Medical Interns</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4841" kind="question">
        <name>Mr PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-07-25" qonNum="241">
            <name>Medical Interns</name>
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          <inserted>241 <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna)</by> (25 July 2018).  How many medical interns are currently in the country? When will this number be doubled?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4342" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Stuart</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Energy and Mining</name>
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          <question date="2018-07-25" qonNum="241">
            <name>Medical Interns</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>There are currently five medical interns spending their full year in country South Australia.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The government will achieve the doubling of intern numbers from January 2019.</inserted>
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