Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, First Session (53-1)
2014-07-02 Daily Xml

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APY Lands, Renal Dialysis Units

The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS (15:14): I have a supplementary question. Is the minister suggesting that it is more difficult to get to one community on the lands than to relocate a whole family to Adelaide for dialysis?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (15:15): The honourable member, I am sure, knows better. The honourable member understands pretty clearly, I would have expected, that Anangu are a very remote but very mobile community. They don't stay on the lands all year round; they move around. If you want to put a fixed facility in Ernabella, you are going to have to understand that part of the community will not be there the whole year round, and we need to put services where they will be taking those services.