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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-03-18T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <heading>Ambulance Ramping</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="7056" referenceid="8dfae82e584e4ef8b03b5e315458492b" uid="1e70e0e6363d4dcfbbcbb63550f3681e" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. B.R. HOOD</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2025-03-18T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <startTime time="2025-03-18T14:34:32+10:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="7056" referenceid="8dfae82e584e4ef8b03b5e315458492b" uid="1e70e0e6363d4dcfbbcbb63550f3681e">The Hon. B.R. HOOD (14:34):</by>  I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Attorney-General a question regarding ambulance ramping.</text>
        <text id="20250318875a4c9747dd486c90000067">Leave granted.</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="7056" referenceid="8dfae82e584e4ef8b03b5e315458492b" uid="16695f2a5c4140959ac77cc03ba85664" kind="question" continued="true">
        <name>The Hon. B.R. HOOD</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="member" id="7056" referenceid="8dfae82e584e4ef8b03b5e315458492b" uid="16695f2a5c4140959ac77cc03ba85664">The Hon. B.R. HOOD:</by>  The Malinauskas government promised to fix ramping before the last election yet ramping remains a crisis, and doctors on the frontline continue to raise concerns. Dr Megan Brooks has testified that the Attorney-General's Department sent her a letter questioning her motivations after she spoke out about the issue, threatening her with maladministration and a misconduct investigation for 'embarrassing the state' after she made contact with the Coroner after multiple deaths linked to ramping.</text>
        <text id="20250318875a4c9747dd486c90000069">My question to the Attorney-General is: does the Attorney-General concede that ambulance ramping has embarrassed his government, given the ramping crisis the state faces despite his government's pre-election promises to fix it?</text>
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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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            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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        <startTime time="2025-03-18T14:35:21+10:30" />
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="53a048c700d24191ae21e729e2eddc4d">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (14:35):</by>  I thank the honourable member for his question. I know that the health minister in another place, the Hon. Chris Picton, member for Kaurna, is doing a huge amount in terms of bringing on new hospital beds and making the health system more efficient.</text>
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