Page 2738 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 6 June 2012

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MR HANSON: Thanks. I get back to my point: this was an attempt by the minister to cover it up. She never wanted this to come to light. She denied that there were any complaints made. She attacked the doctors. The report came out that said that quite clearly there had been bullying, quite clearly people had been making complaints, and then she continued to deny it.

We called for an open, accountable process under the Inquiries Act, which she voted against. She voted against it, knowing that under the Public Interest Disclosure Act the truth would never come to fruition. That was her deliberate attempt—and successful attempt, I might add—to cover up what had gone on on this bullying issue. And I still have a question mark as to why.

I go further on the broken promises. At the last election this minister promised a number of things and then failed to deliver them. She promised that she would deliver three nurse-led walk-in clinics. She promised that she would deliver a secure adult mental health facility. Does anyone know where they are? Has anybody seen them? If that is not the case, they are broken promises. We have a minister that covered things up. We have a minister that went to an election saying that all her claims were on the table when they were not. We have a minister who promised things and broke those promises. And this is now a minister standing up saying: “Yes, we have delivered the worst health results in the ACT’s history. Yes, we have taken it from amongst the best to now the worst. But trust me. Trust me, everybody; everything is going to be apples.” It is quite fair for the ACT community not to trust this minister. When you look at the facts, there is a big difference between what comes out of Katy Gallagher’s mouth and what gets delivered in the community.

Go down to the emergency department tonight, Mr Speaker, and talk to the families there that have been waiting. Tell them that they are not waiting long because they have got the facts that have been distorted by this government. I think that you will get the truth out of them, which is that they have had enough of this government. And the only thing that is going to change both the truthfulness and the results is a change of government.

Question put:

That Mr Hanson’s motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the negative.

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