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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-12-01" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Coronavirus Contact Tracing</name>
      <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000129">
        <heading>Coronavirus Contact Tracing</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="5413" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2020-12-01">
            <name>Coronavirus Contact Tracing</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-12-01T14:34:24" />
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000130">
          <timeStamp time="2020-12-01T14:34:24" />
          <by role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:34):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding public health.</text>
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000131">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. E.S. BOURKE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000132">
          <by role="member" id="5413">The Hon. E.S. BOURKE:</by>  The Premier has made a range of recent public comments, and I quote:</text>
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000133">
          <inserted>What those investigations showed is that one of the close contacts linked to the Woodville pizza bar deliberately misled our contact-tracing team. Their story didn’t add up. We pursued them. We now know that they lied. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000134">And:</text>
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          <inserted>I will not let the disgraceful conduct of a single individual to keep SA in these circuit breaker conditions one day longer than what is necessary. However, this lie still means that our contact tracers need breathing space to contact people but not for as long.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000136">And:</text>
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000137">
          <inserted>…quite frankly, I strongly believe that there has got to be consequences…</inserted>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000138">My questions to the minister are:</text>
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000139">1.&amp;#x9;Does the minister stand by the public comments of the Premier?</text>
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000140">2.&amp;#x9;Do any of those comments pre-empt the ongoing police investigation?</text>
      </talker>
      <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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        <startTime time="2020-12-01T14:35:26" />
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000141">
          <timeStamp time="2020-12-01T14:35:26" />
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:35):</by>  The particular case we are referring to here led contact tracers to believe that their relationship with the Woodville Pizza Bar was that of a customer. Subsequently, they were to learn that their prime relationship to the Woodville Pizza Bar was that of a worker. That is fundamentally misleading, and it did, if you like, send our contact tracers down a line of inquiry that they would not otherwise have taken. I think it is quite legitimate to refer to that information as misleading.</text>
        <text id="202012013c41927cf32e471cb0000142">In terms of consequences, the police commissioner, who is not only the police commissioner but also the State Coordinator during this major emergency, has asked an assistant commissioner to look into these matters. I don't intend to comment further.</text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
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