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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2023-03-23T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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  <dateModified time="2023-07-06T10:02:36+09:30" />
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <heading>Question Time</heading>
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    <subject>
      <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
      <text id="2023032346e09eb73fd84affb0000031">
        <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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        <questions>
          <question date="2023-03-23T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <startTime time="2023-03-23T14:20:33+10:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="6706" referenceid="c8683bcbb226495ebf16e224a5e3db3c">The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:20):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before addressing a question to the Attorney-General regarding the safety of South Australians.</text>
        <text id="2023032346e09eb73fd84affb0000033">Leave granted.</text>
      </talker>
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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>  On a social media post on 27 February 2022, the Attorney-General stated, 'We will fix the ramping crisis.' Despite this pledge his government this week has now conveniently decided that it never committed to any specific target of reduction in ambulance ramping hours. My questions to the Attorney-General are:</text>
        <text id="2023032346e09eb73fd84affb0000035">1.&amp;#x9;Where, on the election posters which were plastered across the entire city and state during the 2022 state election campaign, did it say that fixing the ramping crisis would be measured on ambulance response times, not ramping hours?</text>
        <text id="2023032346e09eb73fd84affb0000036">2. &amp;#x9;What does the Attorney-General say to thousands of South Australians who feel they have been lied to?</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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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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        <startTime time="2023-03-23T14:21:28+10:30" />
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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) (14:21):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question. Certainly, at the last state election the Labor Party committed to reducing ramping hours so that we—</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="2023032346e09eb73fd84affb0000039">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order! </text>
      </talker>
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        <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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            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>—so we can do what I think many South Australians reasonably expect, and that's get ambulances responding to cases on time.</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="2023032346e09eb73fd84affb0000042">
          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  Order!</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
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            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  As evidence shows and common sense dictates, the two are directly linked.</text>
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