House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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Repatriation General Hospital

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:06): Supplementary, sir: has the minister sought any crown law advice as to whether the 1995 agreement constitutes a constructive charitable trust binding the Crown?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:07): I can only repeat what I have said before. This is the last repatriation hospital in Australia. If there was such a contract—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: —it certainly has been repudiated by every other side. As far as I am concerned, I won't be lectured about contracts with the commonwealth government.

The SPEAKER: Before the leader asks, after his last question I omitted (distracted by the point of order of the deputy leader) to warn the deputy leader for the first and second time, to call to order the member for Newland, to warn for the first time the members for Mount Gambier and Heysen, and to call to order the members for Adelaide and Morphett. Leader.