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      <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <heading>Ambulance Ramping</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD</name>
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            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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          <by role="member" id="3126" referenceid="5c423631416444aeb0c7e273b130ee55" uid="f90efc9824124357a26020af35bd99db">The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD (14:25):</by>  Supplementary question: minister, after spending the extraordinary amount of money you have just outlined, why hasn't ramping improved at all?</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>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="9007eb0efd8845ecbbda13c12f24d8ca">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (14:25):</by>  I am happy, because the Hon. Dennis Hood generally asks what are actual supplementaries, in contrast to many of his colleagues. This one may have been borderline but I am happy to indulge the Hon. Dennis Hood.</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You are not reflecting on the Chair in any way?</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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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="0f8021312d4941da959e4e925b933593">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  Absolutely not. I would never reflect on Whyalla's finest in such a way, sir. The government is spending, as the honourable member has outlined, record amounts investing in our health system and it is showing some early results. There is now a two-thirds chance, as I said, of a priority ambulance—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</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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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="9f6d74b8fcbb435b9ba23726f2ab10ad">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  —arriving on time, whereas under the former Liberal government, in 2021, the date of the petition to which I referred to in my answer, there was a two-thirds chance it wouldn't arrive on time.</text>
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