COVID-19 Travel Restrictions

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:28): My question is to the Premier. Did the Premier get advice from SA Health before he made a statement last week on quarantine arrangements for travellers from interstate at Christmas? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr PICTON: Yesterday, SA Health chief executive, Chris McGowan, told a parliamentary committee:

It is not our expectation that there will be no quarantine requirements even for double vaccinated people at this stage.

Further, he went on to say, 'I haven't provided him,' being the Premier, 'any advice on that', and, 'No, I am not aware of any advice to that effect.'

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:29): I think I have gone through this on multiple occasions. We are signed up to the national framework in terms of the removal or the end of state lockdowns and the rollout of the vaccination program. That has been on the advice of the Doherty Institute. It's also been on the advice of the AHPPC. We know that Professor Nicola Spurrier sits on the AHPPC. We didn't seek separate independent advice from Dr Chris McGowan. We signed up—SA Health, South Australia Police, the government of South Australia—to the national framework, and that was very much informed by science and evidence.