Page 5003 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 26 November 1991
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Mr Berry avidly read the newsletter every time it was issued. He brought it into this chamber and used it as a basis for questions. No. 7 is dated 17 May - I stress that date - ten days before the Rally left the Alliance.
Mr Berry: You were sacked.
MR COLLAERY: Let me say it: 10 days before I was sacked.
Dr Kinloch: I was not sacked.
MR COLLAERY: Well, I was. I was sacked. I sure was. I certainly was. Those of us who want to experience most things in life always need a new experience, and that was new for me. On the second page, prominently, it said this:
The Project Office plans to let the building contract this month (May) and currently is interviewing contractors.
This is the accommodation of all diagnostic and treatment functions in a self-contained building. That is what it is referring to. It went on to say:
It also is meeting with seven working parties involved on the design of the D&T block. Construction is planned to begin at the end of the year.
You in this chamber all know - those of you in the know or interested enough to come in here - that the core issue about saving some community health facilities on the block, agreed by all health professionals on all sides of the debate, was the D and T block. That was the Rubicon.
A few days before the Government fell, as Mr Humphries knows, I expressed to him, quite forcefully on behalf of the Rally, that he should not approve the D and T block at that stage. We needed to step back; we needed to think about the D and T block. He will recall that. In fact, in all of our calculations, and in the Labor Party's calculations, was the knowledge that that D and T block was the Rubicon.
The ARCH committee, Regina Slazenger, everyone, talked about it; it was common knowledge. We all looked at the thing called "Milestones", which is an appendix to the newsletter that I refer to. It is in the very same newsletter. There is a timetable setting out, chronologically, the sequence of planned moves. Mr Speaker, I will seek leave to table this document because it is most important historically. I will continue for the time being; but, if members need to refer to it, I have an extra copy. I seek leave to table it.
Leave granted.
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