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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1995 Week 10 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 2636 ..

Mrs Carnell: It must be true.

MR BERRY: Mrs Carnell interjects, "It must be true". She went to great lengths to quote from letters and so on in the Canberra Times just a moment ago. This report in the Canberra Times says:

A spokesman for Chief Minister Kate Carnell -

was he lying? -

said last night the union was "splitting hairs" because all -

no equivocation here -

Jindalee staff would be given a range of options including redeployment, redundancy, or consideration for employment by the new operator.

Not just a few, not the casual staff who had not been working there for 12 months; all, every one of them. On ABC radio Mrs Carnell compounded the issue again. She said this:

It won't push back the sale of Jindalee at all because we're not planning to redevelop the site at all. We're looking at selling Jindalee Nursing Home as a going concern, we've guaranteed all the current people at Jindalee that they will have a bed in the new facility, or in the facility once it's sold. And we've also guaranteed to the nurses and to the other staff ...

Not "some other staff"; "other staff", meaning "all other staff".

Mrs Carnell: Not all other staff.

MR BERRY: No, no; it says "other staff". It just says "other staff". It does not say "except a few that have not worked there for 12 months". It says "other staff", the lot of them who work there. It says:

... they will be offered jobs or retraining in other parts of Health or alternatively redundancy payments.

(Extension of time granted) Thank you. It is no wonder that the union covering staff up at the nursing home was quite upset and that the members there were quite upset at this quite blatant breach of the public statements and the statements that were made in this place. Mrs Carnell leapt forth with all the honeyed promises that everybody was going to be looked after. There was no equivocation about it. She never said, "That little group there is getting nothing; this little group here is getting nothing". No, "all staff"; "the others", it says here. She said:

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