Mr ZAPPIA (Makin) (13:53): Under the Marshall Liberal government, the South Australian public hospital system is in crisis, with waiting queues at Adelaide's major metropolitan hospitals going from bad to worse. Not only is it elective surgery waiting queues that are growing, but also it is that people who are attending the emergency departments of the South Australian public hospitals are sometimes waiting hours and hours before they are seen. If a person goes to the emergency department of a hospital it means that they need emergency treatment. And if they get to the hospital in an ambulance it highlights that they are in a serious situation and, therefore, they shouldn't be waiting hours and hours before they are seen. Yet we've got ambulances at each of those hospitals now queuing, sometimes for hours, and in some cases being shunted from one hospital to another before they ultimately end up somewhere where someone will look after them. I've heard firsthand accounts from patients who have attended these hospitals in an emergency situation and what they had to endure before they were seen. It is simply not sustainable. I know that the ambulance workers and the medical staff at those hospitals are also being put under extreme pressure and stress. I call on the Marshall government to stop putting budget cuts ahead of people's urgent medical needs and to properly fund South Australia's public hospitals.