Sexual Health Services Funding

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (14:55): Supplementary: minister, as you are responsible—as indeed you are—for cutting funding to South Australia's sexual health services in the midst of a syphilis outbreak, will you now accept responsibility for the inevitable increases in STI diagnoses over the next 12 months?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:55): SA Health, with our commonwealth government partners, will continue to deliver a range of services and continue to target them in accordance with emerging risks.

The Hon. I.K. Hunter: You are a failure. You can't do the first basic thing of a health minister: protect South Australians in a syphilis outbreak.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Hunter, please restrain yourself. I cannot hear the minister.

The Hon. I.K. Hunter: It's impossible, Mr President, he's useless.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Hunter, we are verging on being unparliamentary.

The Hon. I.K. Hunter: We are. Egg me on, sir, please.

The Hon. D.W. Ridgway: Chuck him out, sir. Chuck him out.

The PRESIDENT: Have you finished giving me gratuitous advice, minister?

The Hon. D.W. Ridgway: Yes, for the time being.

The PRESIDENT: Mr Hood.