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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Health Consumers Alliance</name>
      <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000540">
        <heading>Health Consumers Alliance</heading>
      </text>
      <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="2018-09-18">
            <name>Health Consumers Alliance</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-09-18T14:46:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:46):</by>  Supplementary: if, as the minister says, this is only something the government is investigating, why have you cut every single dollar to that organisation in your budget?</text>
      </talker>
      <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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        </portfolios>
        <questions>
          <question date="2018-09-18">
            <name>Health Consumers Alliance</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-09-18T14:46:14" />
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          <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart—Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:46):</by>  The government has put nearly $800 million of additional—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <page num="2487" />
        <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000544">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000545">
          <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN:</by>  The government has put—</text>
        <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000546">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000547">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4342" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN:</by>  The government has put nearly $800 million of additional money into the health budget over the forward estimates. We understand what we need to do to get the health system working again as well as it can on behalf of all South Australians. We will undertake—</text>
        <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000549">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000550">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4342" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN:</by>  We will—</text>
        <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000552">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="201809183f91467b617e4982b0000553">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4342">The Hon. D.C. VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN:</by>  We will undertake these investigations very thoroughly, very genuinely, and we will take the decisions that come from those investigations when it's necessary to do that. I can't tell you anything else.</text>
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