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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-12-03" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Keith and District Hospital</name>
      <text id="20201203a93fb6aaf43940a1b0000479">
        <heading>Keith and District Hospital</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="2020-12-03">
            <name>Keith and District Hospital</name>
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          <by role="member" id="5412">The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (14:40):</by>  Supplementary: I refer to the minister's answer, although that last answer was a non-answer. When will emergency services at the Keith hospital reopen?</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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          <question date="2020-12-03">
            <name>Keith and District Hospital</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-12-03T14:41:00" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:41):</by>  We don't run the hospital.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201203a93fb6aaf43940a1b0000483">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! Minister, resume your seat.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201203a93fb6aaf43940a1b0000485">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! If the opposition wishes to listen to the answer, I will call the minister. Otherwise, we will move on.</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>  Well, that's my revelation: they have been asking all these questions, and they didn't even realise it was a private hospital. It is not our hospital.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201203a93fb6aaf43940a1b0000488">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <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>  It is a private hospital run by a private board.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20201203a93fb6aaf43940a1b0000491">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</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>  My understanding is that the accident and emergency unit closed in November 2019. There were significant issues in relation to the GP contract and other services.</text>
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