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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>McGowan, Dr C.</name>
      <text id="20191126b3b99e5d6e494f27a0000293">
        <heading>McGowan, Dr C.</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="2019-11-26">
            <name>McGowan, Dr C.</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-11-26T14:12:59" />
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:12):</by>  My question is to the Premier. Premier, did your SA Health chief executive, Dr Chris McGowan, travel to Perth and meet with his former company Silver Chain at their offices for an hour and a half on 15 February 2019?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
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            <name>Premier</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-11-26">
            <name>McGowan, Dr C.</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-11-26T14:13:21" />
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:13):</by>  Again, I just reiterate that I don't—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="633">The Hon. A. Koutsantonis interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20191126b3b99e5d6e494f27a0000297">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The member for West Torrens is called to order.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  I don't have details on the travel plans or the meeting agenda for every member of the Public Service or even just the chief executives who report directly to me, but if the member has an issue, well, I suggest he takes it up as per my previous answer. But his insinuation is that there's something untoward, that Silver Chain, for example, is a company that is new to SA Health.</text>
        <text id="20191126b3b99e5d6e494f27a0000299">The former government had a long and lengthy relationship with Silver Chain. They have been supplying services to the people of South Australia for an extended period of time. As the member would be more than aware, they own the company, the RDNS, which has been providing excellent services to the people of South Australia for an extended period of time. And rather than come in here and sort of make insinuations, what—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4842">The Hon. S.C. Mullighan interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order, member for Lee!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —if those opposite have—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4335">Mr Odenwalder interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Member for Elizabeth!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  If they believe something untoward has happened—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER</by>:  Order!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —why don't they give it to the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment? That would be the logical way to go—</text>
        <text id="20191126b3b99e5d6e494f27a0000309">
          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5084">Mr Malinauskas interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20191126b3b99e5d6e494f27a0000310">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Leader!</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  —and we would just encourage the opposition to do precisely that.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="5376">Ms Stinson interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20191126b3b99e5d6e494f27a0000313">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Member for Badcoe!</text>
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