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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2018-05-30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Royal Adelaide Hospital</name>
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        <heading>Royal Adelaide Hospital</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Leader of the Opposition</electorate>
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          <question date="2018-05-30">
            <name>Royal Adelaide Hospital</name>
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        <startTime time="2018-05-30T14:37:17" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:37):</by>  Final supplementary (and it was the fourth part of the question): why did the minister decide not to issue a public statement when he first became aware and instead tried to cover up this matter?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The last bit of that question is inserting an inference. The question is fine, barring the inference. I was going to correct you after that, but I will take the opportunity to do it now. Minister, you can answer the first bit; you don't need to make comment on the inference.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Health and Wellbeing</electorate>
        <startTime time="2018-05-30T14:37:43" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:37):</by>  All the information I have received indicated to me the clinicians are dealing with the clinical issue appropriately. I don't see the benefit to the public of taking up the Leader of the Opposition's suggestion that somehow the minister needs to direct all clinical responses.</text>
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