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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS (15:10): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking a question of the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding COVID-19.

Leave granted.

The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS: In addition to ministerial media releases, multiple government COVID-19 public information web pages include hyperlinks that divert people to external Liberal Party web pages that are designed for data harvesting. These include pages linked to vaccines, restrictions, COVID-19—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The conversations between the Hon. Mr Ridgway and the Hon. Mr Wortley are out of order.

The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS: These include pages linked to vaccines, restrictions, COVID-19 testing, the coronavirus hotline and recruiting additional medical staff to help with the biggest crisis that our state is experiencing in living memory. My questions to the minister are:

1. Are there Liberal Party links on the government's COVID-19 public information right now?

2. Exactly how many of these Liberal Party links are embedded in COVID-19 public health information?

3. How did these links get onto official taxpayer-funded government websites?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:11): I thank the honourable member for the question. In terms of the government's COVID-19 web page, the Treasurer, as the minister for the public sector, has already clarified the situation in terms of NationBuilder. But as Minister for Health and Wellbeing, I do want to raise my serious concerns about the linking of the QR code database to this discussion.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order, Leader of the Opposition and the Hon. Mr Wortley!

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The minister will be heard in silence.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: The link between this issue and QR codes was made by the ABC—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. S.G. WADE: —last night when it broadcast—

The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS: Point of order, Mr President.

The PRESIDENT: Point of order. The minister will resume his seat.

The Hon. I. PNEVMATIKOS: I raised no question in relation to QR codes, so my issue is relevance in terms of the minister's answer.

The PRESIDENT: The member will resume her seat. There is no point of order. The minister has been answering the question in relation to the general sense, but I will ask him to return to the sense of the question as it was.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: In terms of the question that was asked, it has already been asked and answered of the minister for the Public Service. I am not responsible for the DPC.

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