Page 5871 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 7 December 2011
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Minister for Health at that stage was entirely complicit. That brought out a whole range of other complaints—
Ms Gallagher: Point of order.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Le Couteur): Stop the clock, please. Yes, Ms Gallagher?
Ms Gallagher: Madam Assistant Speaker, Mr Hanson has just alleged that I was complicit in bullying behaviour. That is not correct and he should withdraw those comments.
Mrs Dunne: On the point of order, I made the point this morning that if a member disagrees with something which has been said in debate they have the standing orders to refer to after the debate. I would suggest that the Chief Minister use standing orders 46 or 47 if she thinks that she has been misrepresented. Because someone disagrees with something that has been said in debate does not give them the right to take points of order and try to disrupt the flow of debate.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, you may continue. There is no point of order.
MR HANSON: This is nothing that we have not heard before, but the extraordinary attack by the minister on the doctors that raised the complaints, and the fact that she went publicly in the media and said that no complaints had been made and then it was found that they had been made, show extraordinary negligence on her part. I think it was disgraceful.
I received throughout that process very little support from the Greens. When I received a whole range of complaints from nurses and others in ACT Health about bullying, one issue that I wanted to get to the bottom of was the culture survey that had been conducted in ACT Health. I wanted to see that. I thought that was an important part of the information puzzle.
Amanda Bresnan said in her speech that these issues should be brought out into the open. Back in 2010 I wanted a judicial inquiry that would have brought this into the open. We could have had in camera hearings. Then it could have been brought back into the open and we could have dealt with some of these systemic issues. But the Greens and the government refused to do that. When I wanted the culture survey that had been conducted in ACT Health, the Greens and the government conspired to refuse that.
So, as much as I commend Mr Rattenbury for bringing this on today, I would also make the point that the Greens have changed their actions in this place. Their narrative might be the same, but when it comes to it the Greens were complicit with the government in 2010 in preventing this issue from coming out “into the open”—in Amanda Bresnan’s words.
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