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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2021-05-27" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>COVID-19 Adelaide Airport Testing Clinic</name>
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        <heading>COVID-19 Adelaide Airport Testing Clinic</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="3125" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2021-05-27">
            <name>COVID-19 Adelaide Airport Testing Clinic</name>
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        <startTime time="2021-05-27T15:20:03" />
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          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY (15:20):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Health and Wellbeing a question regarding health.</text>
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        <text id="202105273993580282214fae90000299">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3125">The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY:</by>  This morning, several talkback callers reported turning up at the Adelaide Airport testing clinic and finding the clinic closed well before its scheduled closing time. Caller Ali said, and I quote:</text>
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          <inserted>it was my family who arrived from Melbourne on Sunday evening…we have to decide to go to the nearest one which was the Airport, and guess what? The Airport at 8:40pm…closed…no explanation.</inserted>
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        <text continued="true" id="202105273993580282214fae90000302">Caller Andrew said, and I quote:</text>
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          <inserted>…in the car we jump, we go down to the airport first of all…not a soul there…this had been shut lights out.</inserted>
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        <text continued="true" id="202105273993580282214fae90000304">My question to the minister is: why exactly did the Adelaide Airport COVID testing clinic close early last night?</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="2021-05-27T15:20:58" />
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:20):</by>  I am advised that the SA Pathology testing facility at the airport did not close early last night.</text>
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