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  <date date="2020-03-25" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Coronavirus</name>
      <text id="20200325a5195e6b88a0449d90000145">
        <heading>Coronavirus</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2020-03-25">
            <name>Coronavirus</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-03-25T14:49:10" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:49):</by>  Supplementary arising from the original answer: for the sake of clarity, can the minister confirm that when his government refers to South Australia's comprehensive plan for managing coronavirus, there is not an actual comprehensive, written down plan, rather a series of historical documents, plans from other jurisdictions or videos that he is referring to?</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="2020-03-25">
            <name>Coronavirus</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:49):</by>  The government's plan is more than all of those. It is those plus more. There is work being done in terms of detailed plans of the local health networks in terms of what they are preparing for their own response. So, for example, the Central Adelaide Local Health Network has the dedicated clinics as well as the preparation they are taking for COVID-19 patients. SAAS has been doing very detailed planning.</text>
        <text id="20200325a5195e6b88a0449d90000148">There is also the work that we are doing with the commonwealth, the work being done through the national cabinet process, but also the work being done by the health ministers' council. But in a whole range of domains within SA Health, a whole range of domains within government, business continuity plans, pandemic-related plans, have been developed. Our comprehensive plan is both the four-point plan that I referred to and detailed plans under those, unpacking what that means in a whole range of domains.</text>
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        <text id="20200325a5195e6b88a0449d90000149">As I said, the economic stimulus element is part of the government's plan. It's not my responsibility as the Minister for Health, but I appreciate the support being provided right across the government to make sure that we minimise the economic damage because that's the best way to maximise the health of South Australians.</text>
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