Page 970 - Week 03 - Thursday, 21 March 2019
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Last Saturday I was pleased to attend Art, Not Apart, which showcases and celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary arts in Canberra. Dave Caffery and his team curated and commissioned a fantastic range of artistic projects featuring over 200 artists of all disciplines, with more than 85 per cent of them coming from Canberra.
Festival goers were treated to a street party atmosphere throughout the New Acton precinct, Shine Dome and NFSA, with exhibitions, street art, dance, theatre, performance art, poetry, installations, music, film and video around every corner, as well as, of course, great food and drink. The ACT government is proud to support both of these events. I personally congratulate all organisers and I thank them for their contribution to the vibrancy of our city.
Canberra Hospital—intensive care unit
MR WALL: My question is to the minister for health. I refer to documents prepared by the head of the SPIRE coordination team which warned that:
There will be an increasing risk to patients if the built infrastructure issues in the ICU in particular are not addressed within the next 18-24 months.
The ICU will run out of beds by October this year. Why have you allowed a situation where the ICU at the Canberra Hospital will not have enough beds to meet demand from October this year?
MS FITZHARRIS: That is not the case, and we have quite significant work planned around the ICU. I look forward to making those announcements at a further date.
MR WALL: Minister, has the government yet developed a plan to address the urgent needs of the ICU, and when exactly will this plan be made public and also fully implemented?
MS FITZHARRIS: I refer Mr Wall to my previous answer, and I look forward to making further announcements in the future.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, why are you constantly scrambling to fix problems at the last minute rather than anticipating them and working to prevent them becoming a crisis?
MS FITZHARRIS: I am categorically not.
ACT Health—workplace culture
MRS DUNNE: My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Minister, in the ACT’s health system we have seen one-third of staff responding to the independent inquiry into workplace culture. We have seen the continuous deterioration of infrastructure. We have infrastructure that is already, or soon will be, stretched to over-capacity. We have plans for new infrastructure costing half a billion
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