Page 1674 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 1 May 2012

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Moving to the matter of the censure, it is quite clear that Katy Gallagher has misled this Assembly on repeated occasions. In actual fact, you can see quotes in the Hansard where she has used those figures to boast and to attack the opposition. More will come out of that, no doubt, as we dig into the Hansard. But she has used those figures, those false figures, throughout the community and in the Assembly with gay abandon. We find out now that they are false.

The other aspect to the censure is that the Chief Minister is the Minister for Health and has been the Minister for Health for nearly six years. Where does the line for ministerial responsibility and accountability start and finish? The minister has presided over a directorate in which someone has felt it necessary and appropriate to lie, to deceive and to falsify documents in order to make the government look better and in order to make their minister look better—that is the consequence of what is happening. I read quotes from the Hansard where Katy Gallagher was saying, “We’re well on track to meeting the government priorities we’ve established at 70 per cent,” that she was very pleased and so on. It is quite clear that the minister set the conditions.

Where is that line? We think it is deserving of a censure. Mr Smyth was censured for the tone of a press release. The Greens salivated at that one. They censured Mr Smyth for the tone of a press release, but they are not prepared to censure the health minister for misleading the Assembly and the community on multiple occasions or for ministerial responsibility and accountability for presiding over a directorate for six years that results in a senior administrator falsifying data that makes the government look good.

Question put:

That Mr Hanson’s motion, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Petitions

The following petitions were lodged for presentation:

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