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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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        <name>The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK</name>
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          <question date="2025-03-20T03:45:00+10:30">
            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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          <by role="member" id="2742" referenceid="1df522b2c3094a7386fc17e1fb16d162" uid="f5917b955dae4375be8b24b22603543c">The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:26):</by>  Supplementary question: when will ramping cease?</text>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT:</by>  You have mentioned ramping a fair bit.</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="fa053b7a0d7649adbd19a03c27504d57">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (14:26):</by>  As I have said, and I will reiterate again, we are spending a record amount—</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The President</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <by role="office">The PRESIDENT</by>:  Order!</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="c4cd8a0c0a43404984b58d8defe874eb" kind="answer" continued="true">
        <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" uid="c4cd8a0c0a43404984b58d8defe874eb">The Hon. K.J. MAHER:</by>  —we are employing more doctors, more nurses, more allied health professionals, delivering more ambos and more ambulance stations, in stark contrast to what the Liberal government did when they were there.</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! The Hon. Ms Girolamo, respect for your colleague. The government benchers, cease.</text>
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