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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2022-09-27T11:00:00+09:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <heading>Ambulance Ramping</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2022-09-27T01:30:00+09:30">
            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-09-27T14:25:44+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:25):</by>  Let's hope this isn't a theme for the day. I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Attorney-General a question about health.</text>
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        <text id="20220927e34e7800b25d48a090000347">Leave granted.</text>
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        <name>The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI:</by>  Just two of the many reports of ramping over the last week include a 94-year-old woman who was forced to wait 3½ hours ramped in an ambulance at the Lyell McEwin Hospital and Robert from Northgate who was 'waiting on cold cement'. He is an elderly man, waiting on cold cement with a broken hip for 4½ hours. My questions to the Attorney-General are:</text>
        <text id="20220927e34e7800b25d48a090000349">1.&amp;#x9;Does he think this is acceptable?</text>
        <text id="20220927e34e7800b25d48a090000350">2.&amp;#x9;When will his government fix ramping?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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        <startTime time="2022-09-27T14:26:30+09:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:26):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her questions. I will refer them to the appropriate minister and bring back a reply.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  The honourable Leader of the Opposition, your third question.</text>
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