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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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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Coronavirus Contact Tracing</name>
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        <heading>Coronavirus Contact Tracing</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="2020-12-03">
            <name>Coronavirus Contact Tracing</name>
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        <startTime time="2020-12-03T14:50:04" />
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          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS (14:50):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Health and Wellbeing a question regarding hospitals.</text>
        <text id="20201203080c0d4329284398b0000522">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS:</by>  On radio this week, the Premier responded to questions about revealing the personal information of a COVID-19 patient. He said:</text>
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          <inserted>[No] I stand by my comments. That was the unequivocal health advice that I had received.</inserted>
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        <text continued="true" id="20201203080c0d4329284398b0000525">My question to the minister is: what exactly was the unequivocal health advice that your department provided?</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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        <startTime time="2020-12-03T14:50:38" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:50):</by>  I refer honourable members to the statement of the Assistant Commissioner of SA Police, Peter Harvey. In a statement issued on 2 December 2020, he said:</text>
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          <inserted>The initial investigation indicated the first conversation with contact tracers was misleading. That conversation was central to information provided by SA Health to decision makers preceding the lockdown.</inserted>
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