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and now it will have to answer for this at the next election.
Because it will take so long to implement the Alliance Government's principal hospital plan, at that point it will be possible to reinstate the Royal Canberra Hospital. That is the only saving grace - that after the next election it will be possible to reinstate that hospital as a community hospital of the same calibre as Calvary. I look forward to that time - when the Alliance is booted out of government, as it should be. It is a motley team of people who came in here on a no self-government basis and on the basis of a whole series of promises, not the least of which was the principle of open government. These people have just sold the electors of Canberra down the drain, and they will have to answer to the electorate for those things, thank goodness.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being almost 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Collaery: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
MR COLLAERY (Deputy Chief Minister), by leave: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am indebted to the members for their courtesy. The motion is:
The failure of the Kaine-Collaery-Duby Government to ensure a strong, viable and accessible public health system.
But, conversely, one could ask: did the Follett-Whalan Government or the Federal Labor Government during their periods in office provide a strong, viable and accessible public health system? That is a question to which, I think, we all know the answer - at least so far as the Federal Labor Government is concerned. I will come to the previous local Government in a moment.
Over 10 years - at least 10 years - successive Federal governments failed to adequately maintain ACT hospitals. Those hospitals became weaker, less viable and increasingly less inaccessible to the people of the ACT. Following that, we had a situation that resulted in a local
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