Ms CLANCY (Elder) (11:46): I rise to indicate that—shock horror—the government will not be supporting this motion. Once again, the Liberal Party has come into this place seeking to condemn a government that is doing the serious structural work required to fix the health system that those opposite left in crisis. Let us be very clear: the ramping crisis did not begin in March 2022.

Members interjecting:

Ms CLANCY: No, that is when South Australians sent a clear message for a serious, grown-up government that would actually do—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Members on my left will listen in silence, as the Leader of the Opposition was afforded when he spoke.

Ms CLANCY: Children. No, that is when South Australians sent a clear message for a serious, grown-up government that would actually do the work, not swan about with meaningless one-sentence motions. When we came to government the situation was dire. Priority 2 ambulance response times were just 31 per cent, which is less than one in three lights-and-sirens ambulances arriving on time. For the most urgent, life-or-death priority 1 cases—

Mr Whetstone interjecting:

Ms CLANCY: I gave your leader silence. I would appreciate the same respect, member for Chaffey.

Mr Whetstone: Concentrate, just concentrate.

The SPEAKER: The member for Chaffey can leave the chamber for 10 minutes. I asked for silence and you continue to interject.

The honourable member for Chaffey having withdrawn from the chamber:

Ms CLANCY: Thank you, Mr Speaker. For the most urgent life-or-death priority 1 cases the figure was 47 per cent, meaning less than half of the most critical call-outs reached patients when they needed them. We were left to rebuild a system at breaking point. While we do have a long way to go, the work is paying off.

As of October this year, priority 1 response times have improved to 67 per cent and priority 2 to 61 per cent, and they continue to trend upward. This means that people are getting medical treatment faster. At the election we promised 300 extra beds. We are now on track to deliver more than 600 new beds—double what we committed to. This includes more than 130 new mental health beds, many of them opening recently or in coming months; a $498 million expansion across Flinders Medical Centre in the nearby electorate of Davenport, as well as in my electorate at the Repat; and also additional beds across The QEH, Lyell McEwin, Modbury and Noarlunga. We reversed the Liberals' sale of Hampstead and are establishing a new 70-bed complex care facility. There are also major expansions in Gawler, Victor Harbor, Mount Gambier, Keith, Whyalla and Port Pirie.

My community has been incredibly impressed and happy with the new Edwardstown Ambulance Station, located at the Repat. This is just one of the 24 new, upgraded or rebuilt ambulance stations we are delivering, in addition to a brand-new SAAS operations centre. Importantly, we have smashed our workforce targets. Since 2022, we have hired more than 2,800 extra health workers above attrition. That is more than 1,460 nurses, over 640 doctors, over 300 allied health workers and over 300 additional paramedics on the road. We have expanded alternative care pathways: SA Health Urgent Care Hubs at the Repat, The QEH and Lyell McEwin; greater support through the SA Virtual Care Service; and a new dedicated State Health Coordination Centre within the SAAS HQ.

We have delivered on our commitment to support three 24/7 community pharmacies, including our very own in Clovelly Park. As I have already shown, we are pretty clearly into delivering even more than we committed to before the election and we have opened another one—a fourth—in Hallett Cove. We have increased weekend discharge, expanded Preventive Health SA and secured mental health community services, including the Co-Responder model with SA Police, which is now expanding into the southern suburbs.

We all know that ramping is not just a South Australian problem. It is a national symptom of more than a decade of neglect and cuts from Liberal-National Coalition governments—governments that failed to invest in aged care and Medicare. The collapse of primary care has meant that many people cannot see their GP for weeks, bulk-billing plummeted forcing people into emergency departments instead and South Australia has the highest aged-care occupancy in the nation at around 98 per cent. With nowhere else to go, older South Australians are stuck in a hospital bed when they should be receiving more appropriate care elsewhere.

Unlike those opposite, we have been brave enough to make demands of the commonwealth government even when they are wearing the same colours, and we will continue to do so. We will continue to advocate for the commonwealth government to increase their investment in the aged-care sector as a direct measure to address ramping.

This motion does nothing to improve emergency care for South Australians, it does nothing to reduce ramping, it does nothing to acknowledge the genuine structural work underway. This opposition has failed to show South Australians that they are meant to be an alternative government. They are all opposition—they've got no ideas, no vision. They have no real plan for our healthcare system. They do have a plan to cut $1.6 billion from the budget in one fell swoop though, with the one policy, and where do we think those cuts will happen? Do we think that the public can really trust that they will not happen in health? While the Liberals play politics, this government is delivering the beds, the workforce, the infrastructure and the system reform required to fix the health system they broke.

The opposition leader spoke about trust, so let's talk about trust. If you cannot even trust an opposition to write a motion more than one sentence long, how can you trust them to build a better healthcare system?