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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Coronavirus Contact Tracing

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (14:34): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding public health.

Leave granted.

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE: The Premier has made a range of recent public comments, and I quote:

What those investigations showed is that one of the close contacts linked to the Woodville pizza bar deliberately misled our contact-tracing team. Their story didn’t add up. We pursued them. We now know that they lied.

And:

I will not let the disgraceful conduct of a single individual to keep SA in these circuit breaker conditions one day longer than what is necessary. However, this lie still means that our contact tracers need breathing space to contact people but not for as long.

And:

…quite frankly, I strongly believe that there has got to be consequences…

My questions to the minister are:

1. Does the minister stand by the public comments of the Premier?

2. Do any of those comments pre-empt the ongoing police investigation?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (14:35): The particular case we are referring to here led contact tracers to believe that their relationship with the Woodville Pizza Bar was that of a customer. Subsequently, they were to learn that their prime relationship to the Woodville Pizza Bar was that of a worker. That is fundamentally misleading, and it did, if you like, send our contact tracers down a line of inquiry that they would not otherwise have taken. I think it is quite legitimate to refer to that information as misleading.

In terms of consequences, the police commissioner, who is not only the police commissioner but also the State Coordinator during this major emergency, has asked an assistant commissioner to look into these matters. I don't intend to comment further.

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