Coronavirus, Education

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:54): My question is to the Premier. Did the Premier or any of his staff ask for the 19-page COVID-19 evidence update not to be released?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:54): I certainly didn't action that, and I can't imagine that anybody in my office did. We are very keen to consider information from all sorts of sources. I think one of the things that Dr Nicola Spurrier has emphasised at her daily press conferences is making sure that we do get multiple inputs regarding this disease. It's a very new disease. In fact, the Prime Minister said recently there is much we have to learn about this disease; in fact, there is much more that we don't know than what we do know about this disease.

We are trying to get input at the moment from the World Health Organization. We are trying to get information from other jurisdictions, people who have done things well. Sometimes, when people haven't done things well, we learn from that as well. Of course, by taking in that information and forming our opinions, especially making sure that we are working with the AHPPC, I think Australia has done extraordinarily well.