Page 1682 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 13 May 2015

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complaints about what other governments are doing in other jurisdictions when you are doing it yourself.

We want to see adequate resourcing in budgets, be they federal or ACT, but we have a government here that talks jobs and hospital beds. What we see in reality is that this is the very same government that is cutting jobs and cutting hospital beds. If the minister is not cutting jobs, I invite her to stand up and say so. If I have got it wrong, I will apologise. I will apologise for being in error. I invite her to stand up and do it. If she refuses to do so, she has to accept that what the AFPA is saying has the ring of truth—that there will be jobs lost.

It is a shame that we again have a government cutting front-line services. It is a shame that we have a government that is out there ripping resources out of policing, just as Minister Corbell is ripping beds out of our hospital system. It is the same group of people out there. They will be the first out there to talk about jobs and hospital beds. It is just ironic.

We will not support this amendment. Just as with hospital beds, I will make the point—and make it repeatedly, make it in this place, make it in the media, make it out in the community, all the way from now to the election—this is the government that is cutting jobs. This is the government that is taking resources out of our police force. This is the government that is cutting hospital beds. And this is the government that is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a tram.

I will say it repeatedly, and you will hear all the members of the Liberal Party saying it. This is a government that cannot provide clarity and funding for nurses in special schools. This is a government that wants to cut police funding. This is a government that cuts hospital numbers. This is a government that is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a tram. That is the reality. That is the proof.

If you think that I am not telling the truth, look at the budget line—$15.3 million. Shame on those opposite. I look forward to, I hope, a change of heart from those opposite. I look forward to the day when Mr Rattenbury moves from the motherhood statements and the warm, fuzzy platitudes and actually recognises that continually apologising and supporting the Labor government on a whole range of cuts and wrong initiatives simply because they are giving him the tram is not sustainable.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

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