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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry Report</name>
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      <text id="202012018d20729308104015a0000197">
        <heading>Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry Report</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5414" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2020-12-01">
            <name>Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry Report</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-12-01T14:59:54" />
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          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS (14:59):</by>  Further supplementary: were there any salient findings or recommendations in the Victorian report that South Australia can draw upon and apply in our state?</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="2020-12-01">
            <name>Victorian Hotel Quarantine Inquiry Report</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:00):</by>  Sorry, I thought you were in the opposition. That was a Dorothy Dix question. Your own party has suggested that—</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The minister will refer through the Chair.</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>  The Leader of the Opposition in the other place said in a <term>Sunday Mail</term> article:</text>
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          <inserted>It is now crystal clear to all concerned that the medi-hotel arrangements in the current format—of housing people with the virus in CBD hotels in proximity to subcontracted private security guards—is not safe.</inserted>
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        <text continued="true" id="202012018d20729308104015a0000203">It goes on in this article to talk about places like Woomera, places outside of the city, as possible venues for a medi-hotel. The hotel quarantine inquiry at recommendation 7 says:</text>
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          <inserted>Given there are currently no identified specific purpose-built quarantine facilities in Victoria, that hotels remain a reasonable and viable option for international arrivals needing to be placed in quarantine. </inserted>
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          <inserted>Relevant criterion for selecting suitable locations as quarantine facilities include:</inserted>
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        <text id="202012018d20729308104015a0000206">
          <inserted>A.&amp;#x9;sufficient proximity to a hospital</inserted>
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        <text id="202012018d20729308104015a0000207">
          <inserted>B.&amp;#x9;being within commuting distance for adequate numbers of appropriately skilled personnel for the facility</inserted>
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        <text continued="true" id="202012018d20729308104015a0000208">It goes on with further criteria. I make the point that your party didn't even reference the recommendations.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="202012018d20729308104015a0000209">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You can refer to the opposition or the Labor Party, but it is not 'my party'.</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>  Thank you, Mr President. The opposition, apparently, did not even bother reading the recommendations on that report before they released their thought bubble.</text>
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