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Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond says South Australia will have to meet the bill for hospital boards under the Federal Government's proposed hospitals takeover.

Ms Redmond has been given a briefing from federal bureaucrats in Canberra.

She says notes provided to her show the states would have to pay for the new hospital boards network.

"The effect of that in my view must be a diminishing of our health front line services in the state in favour of establishing yet more bureaucracy," she said.

Ms Redmond went to Canberra for to seek a briefing for the Opposition because the SA Government is in caretaker mode during the election campaign.

Federal Water Minister Penny Wong says a Coalition split over a national water referendum could spell doom for South Australian irrigators.

Nationals leader Warren Truss says his party does not endorse Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's plan for a referendum in 2013 on a federal takeover of water.

Senator Wong says it shows South Australia would be worse off under a Coalition government.

"So when Isobel Redmond came to Canberra yesterday, she should have spent her time reading the riot act to her federal Coalition partners who want to take more water out of the river for irrigators and give less to South Australia," she said.

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Date Added : 11th March 2010

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