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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-03-30" />
  <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>NationBuilder</name>
      <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000271">
        <heading>NationBuilder</heading>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="5414" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2021-03-30">
            <name>NationBuilder</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-03-30T15:10:40" />
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000272">
          <timeStamp time="2021-03-30T15:10:40" />
          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS (15:10):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding COVID-19.</text>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000273">Leave granted.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5414" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000274">
          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS:</by>  In addition to ministerial media releases, multiple government COVID-19 public information web pages include hyperlinks that divert people to external Liberal Party web pages that are designed for data harvesting. These include pages linked to vaccines, restrictions, COVID-19—</text>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000275">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
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      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000276">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The conversations between the Hon. Mr Ridgway and the Hon. Mr Wortley are out of order.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5414" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000277">
          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS:</by>  These include pages linked to vaccines, restrictions, COVID-19 testing, the coronavirus hotline and recruiting additional medical staff to help with the biggest crisis that our state is experiencing in living memory. My questions to the minister are:</text>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000278">1.&amp;#x9;Are there Liberal Party links on the government's COVID-19 public information right now?</text>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000279">2.&amp;#x9;Exactly how many of these Liberal Party links are embedded in COVID-19 public health information?</text>
        <page num="3024" />
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000280">3.&amp;#x9;How did these links get onto official taxpayer-funded government websites?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <portfolios>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
          </portfolio>
        </portfolios>
        <startTime time="2021-03-30T15:11:59" />
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000281">
          <timeStamp time="2021-03-30T15:11:59" />
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:11):</by>  I thank the honourable member for the question. In terms of the government's COVID-19 web page, the Treasurer, as the minister for the public sector, has already clarified the situation in terms of NationBuilder. But as Minister for Health and Wellbeing, I do want to raise my serious concerns about the linking of the QR code database to this discussion.</text>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000282">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000283">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000284">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000285">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order, Leader of the Opposition and the Hon. Mr Wortley!</text>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000286">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000287">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! The minister will be heard in silence.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000288">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  The link between this issue and QR codes was made by the ABC—</text>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000289">
          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000290">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000291">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  —last night when it broadcast—</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5414">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000292">
          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS:</by>  Point of order, Mr President.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000293">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Point of order. The minister will resume his seat.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="5414">
        <name>The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000294">
          <by role="member" id="5414">The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS:</by>  I raised no question in relation to QR codes, so my issue is relevance in terms of the minister's answer.</text>
      </talker>
      <talker kind="speech" role="office">
        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000295">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The member will resume her seat. There is no point of order. The minister has been answering the question in relation to the general sense, but I will ask him to return to the sense of the question as it was. </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <text id="20210330f8fbeba8e3ef416eb0000296">
          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE:</by>  In terms of the question that was asked, it has already been asked and answered of the minister for the Public Service. I am not responsible for the DPC.</text>
      </talker>
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