Page 3334 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 14 November 2007
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on the state of our public hospitals show, apart from two, how well our public hospital system is delivering.
Mr Stefaniak: AMA’s report card, concerns by the nurses.
MS GALLAGHER: Mr Stefaniak, show us your proof. Show us some reason why we should support this motion, because you have not been able to do it.
Mr Stefaniak: The AMA.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Mr Stefaniak.
MS GALLAGHER: Your shadow has not been able to do it, and the government is not going to support your motion. There is simply no reason to support the motion. There is no reason, as I have said, repeatedly—
Mr Stefaniak: That’s not what your boss said in 2000.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order on the opposition benches!
MS GALLAGHER: All of the performance indicators show how well we are going in the health system. When referring to those performance indicators I am not just talking about emergency department waiting times in category 3 and 4 and waits for elective surgery; I am talking about all aspects of the health system. We report openly on that. Go to the website, have a look at it. We set the targets; we set the goals; we show you how we are performing every single quarter. We are more open than any other health department in the country in terms of public reporting around our performance. It is all there, Mr Stefaniak.
Mr Stefaniak: What are you afraid of?
MS GALLAGHER: It is all there. There is no need for an inquiry when all the information is there. All that you want an inquiry to do is to dig up a scandal or to try and find a scandal that does not exist. It would be a waste of time; it would not deliver anything; it would not change what happens in the health system, because the health system has been reformed by this government and it is delivering for our community. It will continue to deliver for our community as we plan and invest in our health system, which is something that you guys did not do. We fixed up your mess; we fixed it up in disability; we fixed it up in child protection; and we fixed it up in health.
MRS BURKE (Molonglo) (11.33): Well, well, well; that attempted speech by the health minister really shows her ineptitude. How shallow! When you read back some of these comments, you see the shallowness of this minister in being able to take charge of one of the most important portfolio areas in this government. She sits there trying to be in denial and saying everything is rosy in the garden. Mr Deputy Speaker, an inquiry is needed, and Mr Stefaniak stated the case quite clearly.
What hypocrites! What hypocrites are you! You demanded in opposition that we do something in disability services, and it was done. But, no, now the boot is on the other
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