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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>COVID-19 Restrictions</name>
      <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000461">
        <heading>COVID-19 Restrictions</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="2021-10-26">
            <name>COVID-19 Restrictions</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-10-26T14:42:01" />
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          <by role="member" id="4841">Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:42):</by>  If the Premier will indulge us, I would like to ask a question of him. Will South Australia have the smallest number of people allowed at a home gathering this Christmas and, if so, is that because our health system is not ready?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4338" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Dunstan</electorate>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Premier</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2021-10-26">
            <name>COVID-19 Restrictions</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-10-26T14:42:31" />
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          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:42):</by>  We have always listened to the advice of SA Health when it comes to managing this COVID pandemic. When we look at some of the—</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>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000465">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order! The Premier has the call.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000466">
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  It's hard to keep a train of thought with all the excited behaviour from those opposite during question time. Actually, I can't even remember what his question was. Can anybody remember what it was?</text>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000467">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </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>  Home restrictions, yes. It's hard to keep—</text>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000469">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </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>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000470">
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  Listen to them. What a rabble—because there's no discipline!</text>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000471">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000472">
          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order!</text>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000473">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Order, the leader! Premier, please do try not to provoke the opposition.</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>  So when we look at the information that has been provided by the epidemiologists, it's very clear that most of the superspreader events that have occurred around Australia have occurred at events like weddings and funerals and home gatherings, so these have been one—</text>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000476">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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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>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000477">
          <by role="member" id="4338">The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL:</by>  These have been events that we have been keen to—</text>
        <text id="20211026c247760a69914ce880000478">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </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>  Thank you, sir.</text>
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