Page 990 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 28 March 1990
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to read your propaganda a bit better. Most women out there want Royal Canberra Hospital kept for obstetrics and they want a birthing centre attached to it. If you speak to these women they will tell you this. But you have not had any consultation with the women outside. You have just gone ahead on your merry way and made up your mind what you are going to do and then you have gone ahead and done it. You do not really care about the voters out there, but let me tell you the voters will tell you at the next election what they feel about it. I am quite sure they will get rid of most of the people on that side of the Government. I can name at least six that I am quite sure will be gone - that is very easy - maybe seven or eight. Mr Humphries will be here because he will be very high up on the ticket of the Liberal Party because he will have the numbers.
Mr Berry: He will be No. 1 like he was before.
MRS GRASSBY: He will be No. 1 as he was before as he has got the numbers, and, of course, he will be back here. I am quite sure that Mr Kaine will be back, and Mr Stefaniak will be back. I will be sorry if Mrs Nolan is not back, but I am quite sure the rest of them will not be here. The people of Canberra will tell them how they feel about what they have done to their public health system and the Royal Canberra Hospital. This will be told to them well and truly at the next election and they will know that people in Canberra will not put up with lies told outside this house.
We have seen petitions signed by these people to the effect, "Yes, we are going to keep the Royal. Yes, we will support you". Unfortunately, the people in Canberra now know that you have the numbers, and you will go ahead and do it. You will get rid of the Royal Canberra Hospital eventually. You will play games with us now and say you are going to keep a bit of this and a bit of that, but we all know that the developers are looking at that site. It is one of the best sites in Canberra; we all know that. They would love to get their hands on that and they have got to look after their friends.
Of course, the Residents Rally - the "nimbys" - and the No Self Government have to go along with this because they signed a piece of paper that said they would go along with this. These people who talk about social consciences like Mr Collaery, who is always telling us about his - he starts off with Wollongong and the mines, living by the railroad - would not know what a social conscience is. Words are so cheap. It is like Alice in Wonderland, when the cat said to Alice - - -
Mr Collaery: You are telling me.
MRS GRASSBY: Yes, that is right. You surely are Alice in Wonderland, you really are. Words can mean whatever you want them to mean, and that is what Mr Collaery does - he utters words, and they can mean whatever. He would not even know
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