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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus

Ms PRATT (Frome) (14:32): My question is to the Premier. Will the Premier—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The Minister for Transport, you are getting close to your final warning. I would hate to chuck you out on the last day.

An honourable member: Send him out for the rest of the year.

The SPEAKER: He might enjoy that. The member for Frome.

Ms PRATT: My question is to the Premier. Will the Premier commit to an independent review of his government's response to the tomato brown rugose fruit virus?

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Premier) (14:32): What we will commit to is making sure that all effort, all urgency, will be applied to actually addressing the issue that is in front of us. The time for reviews is at the end of an issue, not during it. I'm trying to think of the best analogy of a most recent example of a virus coming from another part of the world into our state, and what happened then was the opposition at the time, occupied by members from this side of the house, were not running around trying to impose retrospective reviews on a crisis that was unfolding and an issue: what we sought to do was provide bipartisan support and—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my left, including the member for Morialta, will come to order.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: —constructive ideas to actually address—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Morialta, I just asked you to remain quiet.

The Hon. P.B. MALINAUSKAS: What we are going to do, in answer to the member for Frome's question, is continue to do the effort as best we can. There may be a time for reviews later down the track but doing a review in the middle of the event doesn't seem to be a particularly productive exercise.

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