Health Services

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (14:23): Supplementary: as a point of clarification—and this tends towards a supplementary question I think I asked yesterday—the question, as I understood it, was not—

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS: Point of order: supplementary questions are questions. They are not allowed to have an explanation.

The PRESIDENT: I appreciate that. Ask your question.

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: I will ask the question without giving the minister the benefit of the explanation. Minister, you confounded in your answer the proposition of privatising existing services with the proposition of privatising some extra additional services. You did that in your answer earlier this week. The Leader of the Opposition asked you—

The PRESIDENT: Get to the question

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: —will you privatise any existing clinical services, not contract with any further additional services. Will you privatise any existing clinical services?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:24): The Marshall Liberal government will not sell any public hospitals, nor will we move to have any public hospitals privately managed. In assessing other options, the Liberal Party will be focused on health outcomes.