Page 3937 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 23 November 1993
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Mr De Domenico: You already know.
Mr Kaine: He has already told you.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: Listen to the rabble opposite. They cannot stand hearing good news.
Mr Kaine: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. I do object to being referred to by this Minister as rabble. I would seek that he withdraw that. I find it quite offensive.
MR BERRY: I do not think it is one of those words - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, I would put that as a very borderline request, but I will ask the Minister to - - -
Mr Kaine: It is not borderline at all. I do not consider being called rabble as being acceptable.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Kaine!
Mr Kaine: Yes, Madam Speaker?
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry, you may continue.
MR BERRY: Thank you, Madam Speaker. In October 1993 ACT Pathology, which of course is located at Woden Valley and Calvary hospitals, was officially granted continuing accreditation for a further three years by the National Association of Testing Authorities and the Royal College of Pathologists in Australia. So it is true; it is much better under Labor.
Mrs Carnell: No doctors.
Mr De Domenico: Oh dear!
MR BERRY: It gets them going again. It is interesting to note that ACT Pathology is one of the largest hospital laboratories in Australia to have received continuing registration. The original registration and accreditation was achieved in 1988. In August 1993 ACT Health's Jindalee Nursing Home was awarded three years' accreditation - another sound achievement by Labor - by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.
Mr Humphries: That was under us, too.
MR BERRY: Yes, but you gave the tick to the doctors' exorbitant wages, too, which Mrs Carnell opposes, because she said that they were untenable.
Mrs Carnell: It was untenable - - -
MR BERRY: "Untenable", you said.
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