Page 1666 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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It is certainly a policy that the Labor Party have used now on several occasions. They cashed it in over the elective surgery waiting times. They certainly cashed in their third-party policy over the 10-year war in obstetrics and the bullying inquiry, none of which we know about, none of which has ever been made public. We do not know what has been fixed. We do not really know what needed to be fixed, because the Greens are complicit with the Labor Party in hiding and covering up on behalf of their Labor colleagues.
Nothing will change. And this Green amendment will change nothing, because what it does is to request the Auditor-General to inquire into data discrepancies. It is like they are limiting something: “Just go and look at the data.” What about the process? What about the justification? What about the outcome? What about the damage done to the Health Directorate? What about the damage done to this place that covers up for a Chief Minister that has scandal after scandal just in the last four years, let alone running through the litany of broken promises? “There will be no school closures.” “All of our plans are on the table.” At every election Katy Gallagher is caught out by her lies to the community and then she is aided and abetted by the Greens in protecting her position because it suits their purpose.
Not supporting this motion lets down the overwhelming majority of staff in the Health Directorate who do the right thing. It is interesting that both Ms Gallagher’s amendment and Ms Bresnan’s amendment call on the Assembly to offer its support to all of the staff at the Health Directorate who have been affected by this matter. Well, do that. Stand up for them. Say no to corruption. Say no to falsifying records. Say no to governments that do not look after the staff and the community but look after themselves.
But the Greens will not do that because the Greens do not do that. The Greens are the great disappointment. They talk the talk but they will never hold a Labor government to account because that is what they want in office. So they are simply looking after their own position. Ms Bresnan’s amendment should be rejected for—(Time expired.)
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (11.20): I am very pleased to see that Mr Smyth has been going through the Greens’ policies. It seems he might be looking for some ideas to fill the empty cupboard as we approach October 2012. Mr Smyth has come in here and played his classic strategy this morning. He has set up the straw figure, he has created a furphy and then he has got outraged about it. It is a classic tactic that we see from him. It is one that Mr Seselja seems to quite like as well. I can assure Mr Smyth that if he had been listening to the earlier debate and had followed Ms Bresnan’s earlier comments at all he would know that the Greens are concerned about this. That is why Ms Bresnan has put forward a further amendment to ensure that the Auditor-General is involved in reviewing this matter.
The Auditor-General and her staff are an appropriate body to review this matter. The Auditor-General Act is very clear. The Auditor-General has substantive powers to investigate a matter like this. The Auditor-General has the capability and the resources to investigate a matter like this. A number of times in the course of this Assembly and probably in Assemblies past Mr Smyth has come in here with Auditor-General reports and taken the government to task over the findings.
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