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governments to build hospitals. It is a difficult task. No-one denies that it is a difficult task. But we saw the South Australian government completely build a new hospital rather than put good money after bad, putting sticky tape, bandages and gaffer tape on the old Adelaide hospital. They built a new Adelaide hospital on a new campus.
It was a difficult task. There is no doubt about it. It was a hard road. I know how hard it was. I have spoken to the minister at the time about it. It is a very difficult task. But the South Australian Labor government did not shy away from it, not like this government, this incompetent government, which has shied away from building new facilities and rather has spent, according to the minister’s briefing, something in the order in the last little while of $400 million on stop-gap measures. This is a waste in many ways of taxpayers’ money because we should have been up and building new facilities rather than trying to keep the old ones going beyond their useful life.
I look forward to the minister reporting on this at the end of this year. The Canberra Liberals and the people of the ACT, through the Canberra Liberals, will be keeping this government, this incompetent, this untrustworthy government, accountable in relation to infrastructure which is much needed in the Canberra hospital system.
Amendment agreed to.
Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.
Children and young people—out of home care
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (3.12), by leave: On behalf of Mrs Kikkert, I move:
That this Assembly:
(1) notes that:
(a) we demonstrate our value for vulnerable children in out-of-home care by making top-quality decisions and listening to their voices;
(b) the 2016 Glanfield Inquiry recommended that “A review should be undertaken of what decisions made by CYPS should be subject to either internal or external merits review. The review should have regard to the position in other jurisdictions and be chaired by the Justice and Community Safety Directorate”;
(c) earlier this year, a working group that was established to address this recommendation released a discussion paper titled Review of Child Protection Decisions in the ACT, with consultation open to public submissions;
(d) the Minister for Children, Youth and Families has also invited stakeholders within the child protection and legal systems and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to participate in face-to-face consultations; and
(e) the review process, as acknowledged by the Minister for Children, Youth and Families, has experienced delay;
(2) further notes that A Step Up for Our Kids, the ACT Government’s out-of-home care strategy, promises to “embed a culture of listening to the voices of children and young people”; and
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