Page 3152 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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MR DOSZPOT: I will, Mr Speaker, but the Attorney-General has misrepresented the Auditor-General.
MR SPEAKER: No. No buts, Mr Doszpot.
MR DOSZPOT: Well, good for the goose, not good for the gander.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Doszpot! It is the practice here to not withdraw with all sorts of riders—
MR DOSZPOT: I withdraw, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. You are free to continue.
MR DOSZPOT: That there was more than one person responsible is evident. It is evident in the report from the Auditor-General, which our Attorney-General seems to ignore and totally deny, that the tampering occurred over several years and involved thousands of records—thousands of records. We are not talking about one, two, 10 or 20. We are talking about 11,700 records that were tampered with. We know that staff were under pressure, but the Chief Minister did not want to investigate that. We know from the Auditor-General’s report that there was a belief that people feared losing their jobs if targets were not met. But the Chief Minister did not want to investigate that. We know that elsewhere in the hospital system there were other staff under pressure—for example, in maternity. But the Chief Minister did not want to know about that either.
In a recent interview on 2CC, the Chief Minister made the incredible statement that she could not understand what all the fuss is about. After all, she said, “The person at the centre of this data tampering didn’t commit murder and nobody died.” It was not murder, and no-one died.
So is anything less than murder okay according to the moral compass of the ACT Chief Minister? Fraud—11,700 cases of it—appears to be okay. By extrapolation, this must mean the Chief Minister condones fraud. She condones deception and she is quite happy to accept a cover-up.
Mr Speaker, is this the standard of behaviour the Greens so often moralise about? Do the Greens condone the culture of fraud and deception and cover-up? They must do, because they have already announced that they are not going to back this motion of no confidence. So, using the Chief Minister’s personal code of morality that no-one had committed murder, that no-one had died, anything else is all right and not worthy of a no-confidence motion. What rank hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy it might be, but it is also a consistent response from the Greens. After all, this is the same party that thought it perfectly acceptable for people to sabotage respectable scientific trials and to provide a pardon for them even before any questions had been asked and any explanations given. May I suggest that this “turn a blind eye or deaf ear” approach is fairly common among the Greens and among ministers in this government.
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