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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2019-04-02" />
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>SA Pathology</name>
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        <heading>SA Pathology</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5412" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2019-04-02">
            <name>SA Pathology</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-04-02T14:34:27" />
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:34):</by>  A further supplementary: does the minister consider that 12 months is sufficient to make fundamental changes to the system?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2019-04-02">
            <name>SA Pathology</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-04-02T14:34:34" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:34):</by>  The honourable member distorts the goal. The goal is to see tangible progress. What we didn't see under the former government was tangible progress. We had a report released in December 2014 with a whole range of recommendations, accepted by the former Labor government. What progress did we see against those recommendations? Not a jot.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. Hunter interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The Hon. Mr Hunter, we have done the radio commentary stuff.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. I.K. Hunter</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. Hunter:</by>  I have a lot more to go.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  It may well be. Minister, do you have anything more?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  I would love to. Thank you for the opportunity. With Labor, we had a report that committed to cut 332 FTEs from SA Pathology. They promised to close sample collection centres. They committed to consolidate all non-urgent—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Sit down, minister. The Hon. Ms Franks, do you have a supplementary?</text>
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