Page 1047 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 28 March 1990
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The advantages of the siting of the Royal Canberra Hospital in terms of rehabilitation and convalescence must not be lost in a narrow financial discussion.
And they were not, Mr Speaker. It was well and truly anticipated by the Rally that the Royal Canberra Hospital site was appropriate for the matters that we have decided it should be used for.
Mr Moore: You weasel!
MR COLLAERY: Of course no government is bound by immutable policy. Only those who have a sort of a ideological hang-up - - -
Mr Moore: Ideological again.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I am being interrupted by the holier than thou speaker of an hour ago, who wants to bring back Mr Whalan.
MR SPEAKER: Please desist, Mr Moore.
MR COLLAERY: Certainly, the Residents Rally does not feel at all defensive on this issue.
Mr Moore: You should. Read the full health policy.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, please.
Mr Moore: Read the full health policy.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Moore! If you interject again, I will warn you. I have had enough of you. Please proceed, Mr Collaery.
Mr Moore: Excuse me, Mr Speaker, was that actually a warning, or are you telling me that if I do it again you will warn me? I am just asking for a clarification. Have I or have I not been warned?
MR SPEAKER: You will be warned if you do it again. I am giving you two warnings, in effect.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, the strength of government is to take difficult decisions. Certainly, there will not be a premise on the Acton Peninsula known as the Royal Canberra Hospital. It will contain all the institutional elements that were discussed by the Rally and the Rally executive at the time that we realised there were difficult decisions to take. There is no embarrassment at all, and I can assure you, Mr Speaker, there has been no negative reaction to the Rally - two or three calls only on this issue. Secondly, I wish to correct another baseless suggestion that Mr Moore made. He referred to the resignation of Mr Donohue. Before the Government intimated or took this decision on
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