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Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
TRUCK (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
Consideration resumed from 18 September 1990, on motion by Mr Collaery:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
REDEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC HOSPITAL SYSTEM AND CORPORATISATION OF HOSPITAL SERVICES SUPPLY CENTRE
Ministerial Statement
Debate resumed from 3 May 1990, on motion by Mr Humphries:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MR BERRY (4.19): I am sure that the Deputy Leader of the Government will have the opportunity to speak on this matter, and so he should, because it is partly because of his action that this public hospital redevelopment plan has been adopted by the Government, Royal Canberra Hospital will close and other consequent ramifications will impact on the community at large.
Labor's plan was to keep Royal Canberra Hospital open, to have a principal hospital at Woden Valley Hospital and to retain Calvary Hospital, and, of course, ensure that adequate public beds would be available in future for the people of the ACT. There was significant evidence in the term of the minority Labor Government that there was support from members opposite in relation to that matter. Now, those people have changed their mind. Some would say that if they had a mind like that they would change it too. The fact of the matter was that they changed their mind, to the detriment of the people of the ACT. The result is that we lose a major chunk of our hospital system and we will have to suffer the impact of that decision well into the future. That decision, once it goes past the point of no return, I suspect, will be irreversible for any future government.
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