PROFESSOR ELEANOR A BOURKE AM, Chair MS SUE-ANNE HUNTER, Commissioner MR TRAVIS LOVETT, Commissioner

HB07.0011.0010 MS MCLEOD SC: If the answer - I don't know the answer but if the answer was that the emergency staff were overrun and overwhelmed that night, what's the answer to that? 5 THE HON MARY-ANNE THOMAS: Well - and I do want to acknowledge that our health care workers have been under unprecedented pressure because of the impacts of COVID in our health system and so on, and that Emergency D. [...] I do want to acknowledge the incredible work of Nicole McCartney, the Chief Aboriginal Health and Well-being Officer in my Department, for the work that she has done to support the development of the agreement and, as you know, it is overseen by a Forum and the Forum is co-chaired by myself and by CEO of VAHS, Michael Graham, who I know is 20 known to all of you. [...] As progress is being made on many of the actions and it is - progress is reported back at the quarterly Forums, the decision to defer the work on the indicators has been made by the Partnership, but I acknowledge that it is a decision made as 25 a consequence of lack of resources to do the work at this time. [...] The priority for the delivery of the different actions is set by the partnership and the voice is given to ACCOs. [...] The power is with yourself and the Department, and it is the Department and your own responsibility, you can't push that back on to the Forum members.