Health Services

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:55): Supplementary arising from the answer.

The PRESIDENT: Original answer.

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: Are you ruling out any part of SA Pathology, patient transport services, SA Ambulance Service, SA prison services or services performed outside hospitals being privatised in any way? Is that what you are ruling out with your 'n-o' answer, or are you going to mislead parliament like you did last week?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:55): Mr President, I actually take that last comment from the Leader of the Opposition offensively. If he wants—

The Hon. K.J. Maher: You had to come in and correct yourself because you misled us.

The PRESIDENT: Let the minister—

The Hon. K.J. Maher: He misled us last week and had to come in and correct himself; the first minister to do that.

The PRESIDENT: Leader of the Opposition, stop making gratuitous statements to the house; you have other opportunities for that.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: I will restate what I said last week: a Marshall Liberal government will not sell any public hospitals, nor will we move—

The Hon. K.J. Maher: You're not ruling any of these out.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Childish. Absolutely childish.

The Hon. K.J. Maher: You will have the Premier talking to you again, Stephen.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: He is such a schoolboy. He should follow the former minister Malinauskas down to the other place; that's where this sort of behaviour belongs. A Marshall Liberal government will not sell any public hospitals, nor will we move to have any public hospital privately managed. The Labor Party has sourced a wide range of services from beyond the public sector. In assessing such options, the Liberal Party will be focused on health outcomes.