Central Adelaide Local Health Network Whistleblower Hotline

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (15:20): Further supplementary arising from the original answer: are complainants made aware at the time that they are making the complaint that their complaint may be handed over to agencies outside of government?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:20): The KordaMentha role is a partnership with CALHN. KordaMentha will continue to work in partnership with clinicians, in partnership with SA Health management, in partnership with the board. Staff are well aware that KordaMentha is part of the financial team. They will continue to get data, particularly financial data but also in terms of the way the hospital operates.

I suppose one of the things that must be particularly embarrassing for the Labor Party is that, after 16 years of Labor, not only did KordaMentha give us a better insight into how the former Labor government had wasted $300 million in inefficiencies last year, they had also evolved a health network where the culture was toxic. This is meant to be a party that stands up for the worker, yet they allowed the workers in the Central Adelaide Local Health Network to be in an environment of bullying and intimidation. They completely failed their duties to the workers in the health system.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Yet they come in here and bleat about—

The Hon. I.K. Hunter: You are the worst minister we've ever seen.

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Hon. Mr Hunter!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: They stand up and they defend inefficiencies. They defend a toxic culture.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: They defend 16 years of failure.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Hunter! Minister Ridgway, I remind you you are a minister. Stop pointing in an aggressive fashion to the Hon. Mr Hunter. The Hon. Mr Hunter, your behaviour is equally bad.