Page 4781 - Week 15 - Thursday, 8 December 1994
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Mrs Carnell constantly focuses on blow-out. It is important that Health meet its budget; but what is also important is what is the health budget, and Labor is maintaining a commitment to health expenditure and health care. Mrs Carnell's pledge to the people of Canberra in her alternative budget is to slash health expenditure by over $30m. We will meet our budget. Mrs Carnell's promise to the people of Canberra is to slash that budget by $30m, which would have Kennettesque consequences. The scale of the expenditure reduction that Mrs Carnell is promising for health is Kennettesque. Mr Kennett, in the last three years, has slashed hospital expenditure by about 15 per cent. Mrs Carnell promises to slash hospital expenditure by 13 per cent. Just like Jeff Kennett, she says, "It can be all done by casemix". That brilliant document, the world's greatest alternative budget, tabled here some months ago, says, "You will get $26m out of the hospital system by a thing called casemix". That is what Jeff Kennett said. If the result is chaos, the result is confusion, and we will not inflict that on the people of Canberra; but Mrs Carnell would.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
STANDING COMMITTEE DOCUMENTS - ACCESS
Motion (by Mr Berry), by leave, agreed to:
That the Committees established by resolution of the Third Assembly shall have the power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the relevant standing committee of this Assembly.
CONSERVATION, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Statement by Chairman
MR MOORE: I ask for leave of the Assembly, as chairman of the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment, to make a brief statement in relation to the Floriade bulb give-away.
Leave granted.
MR MOORE: Mr Deputy Speaker, I rise today to make a short statement on the bulb give-away following the closure of Floriade this year. As members are aware, the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning announced that the general public would be able to help themselves to hundreds of thousands of bulbs from the Floriade site on Saturday, 29 October 1994. The Minister also stated that the bulb give-away was a one-off thing for this year, due to the need to vacate Commonwealth Park earlier than has been required in previous years.
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