Page 1265 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 March 2013
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MS GALLAGHER: That is right; they had to make it look a little bit more, but no-one took you seriously. No-one for a moment thought you had those individual thought bubbles yourself. You took the Labor Party’s policy and you tried to make it your own. So after years and years of moaning and whinging about the Labor administration in relation to health, do you know what your answer was? Your answer was to copy exactly what our plans were. That is exactly what your plans were—to copy ours. So every single policy was matched.
Today I think it is more relevant that we discuss what our public health system is doing. What has it done in the last week, Mr Hanson—this system that you can only be disappointed in? “Fiasco” I think is the other word you used. Let us think back to what that health system has done. Every day, whilst you are sitting in here throwing stones, nearly 200 people present to our emergency department, every single day at Canberra Hospital. Car accidents, people with broken bones, lacerations, cancer—they are the people that turn up every day. And what happens? They get treated, and they get treated well. While you are sitting in here telling people that they can only be disappointed if they go to the public health system, their lives are being saved. Lives are being saved right now, Mr Hanson, in that system that you can only be disappointed in, in the “fiasco” of the public health system.
In the last week 69 babies have been born, delivered, in excellent care, in excellent facilities by excellent staff. Is that a system you can only be disappointed in, Mr Hanson? What about the 50 people who have started their radiation therapy? What about them? Are they disappointed in the system?
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Gentleman): Mr Hanson, you have had your time.
Mr Hanson: Mr Assistant Speaker.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson?
MS GALLAGHER: Can you stop the clock, please?
Mr Hanson: You were calling me to order for interjecting, but, as you would know, as the Assistant Speaker, under standing order 42 there is a requirement for the Chief Minister to address her comments through you. I would ask that if you are going to call someone to order, then you would call the Chief Minister to order for constantly—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you for your comments, Mr Hanson.
Mr Hanson: addressing her comments to me in the last five minutes—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, I will ask you to take your seat.
Mr Hanson: rather than the interjections that I may be making in response.
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