KordaMentha

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:05): My question is again to the Premier. Why is the government considering appointing KordaMentha to be administrators of public hospitals when they have absolutely no experience in running public hospitals?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:05): I know that the Leader of the Opposition has all these questions written down. I'm looking forward to the repetition that is going to occur, but you should apply a little bit of—

The Hon. J.A.W. Gardner: Listening skills.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —listening skills. You could rewrite them while you're sitting there. You've got somebody sitting next to you.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: Point of order, sir: this preamble is debate.

The SPEAKER: Yes, this is very cheeky. Premier, please do get on with it.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: Well, I've just made the point that KordaMentha will not be running the hospital or emergency departments. The reality is that clinicians will be running the emergency department—

Mr Brown interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Playford is called to order.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. We will be listening to clinicians, unlike the previous government, who didn't listen to the clinicians and we've ended up with the Royal Adelaide Hospital mess that we currently have. I would have thought, of all the people on the opposition benches, there was one person who knew about the mess more than others, and that is in fact the Leader of the Opposition himself because of course he was the minister for health under the previous government. He sat in cabinet—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —and endorsed the hopeless policy of the previous government of Transforming Health, and that is exactly and precisely why we have had to take the action that we have had to take, which is of course to bring KordaMentha in to unravel some of the mess that the Leader of the Opposition and his cronies presided over in the last government in this state.

The SPEAKER: Before I call the Leader of the Opposition, I call the following members to order, and it is a long list: the member for Playford, the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Wright, the Minister for Energy, the Minister for Industry, the member for Badcoe, the Minister for Primary Industries, the deputy leader and the member for West Torrens.