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hospital. We believe that we already have a principal hospital, the Royal Canberra Hospital, and we do not need another one.
The Royal Canberra Hospital has always been the major trauma and acute care hospital of the ACT and the surrounding regions. The highly trained dedicated teams of health professionals have provided excellent health care services for the community 24 hours a day for so many years. They have saved our lives and the lives of our loved ones.
The members of the Augment Royal Canberra Hospital Committee have collected 19,368 petitions stating that the decision to close the Royal Canberra Hospital should be reversed and that it should be upgraded to its former excellent standard for the people of Canberra and the surrounding regions.
We call on Ms Rosemary Follett MLA, the Labor Leader of the Opposition in the ACT Legislative Assembly, to present these petitions to the Assembly. Furthermore, the people are requesting that their wishes are respected and they seek the support of all members in the Assembly and an assurance that the Royal Canberra Hospital will continue to provide an excellent health care service to the community. The people need to feel secure in the knowledge that when they or their loved ones are sick, that they receive the best possible care in a public health facility regardless as to whether they have the money to pay for it. We must not replace public hospitals with private hospitals. The people of Canberra put their trust in the ACT Government and that trust should not be undermined by the closure of this public health facility.
I have been requested to read this letter to the Assembly by the signatories, Mr Gunther Emmelman and Ms Regina Slazenger, OM.
SCHOOL CLOSURES
MR WOOD (10.33): I move:
That school closures are unnecessary and will severely diminish the quality of education in the ACT.
The Education Minister, Mr Humphries, has not demonstrated the need to close any school. He has demonstrated no educational need. He has not tried that argument, knowing that it could not possibly succeed; nor has he made any serious effort to demonstrate an economic need. He has
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