Page 2686 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 6 June 2012
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systemic and long-standing reticence by management to address disruptive or inappropriate behaviour …
… midwifery staff reported they had discussed their concerns … they did not believe these issues were addressed.
Management team members … acknowledged that they had received complaints about inappropriate behaviour by a … clinician …
But nothing was done. It was just Katy Gallagher denying and then attacking. Even after that report—four days after that report that conclusively said that allegations had been made, that the complaints had been made and ignored—Katy Gallagher came out and said, “You can’t investigate allegations that don’t exist.” She was still denying it after that report. Why was she? It has never come out why she hid it under the Public Interest Disclosure Act. We wanted a board of inquiry. Again, the Greens blocked that. Was there any conflict of interest there, I wonder? The minister was desperate to hide what had gone on in this case; just as she has been with the emergency department doctoring. I could go on with GPs, the Calvary hospital debacle, all the broken promises, the failed infrastructure delivery and the VMOs that have called for her resignation, but I will leave that to my colleagues. (Time expired.)
MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Chief Minister, Minister for Health and Minister for Territory and Municipal Services) (11.24): The government will not be supporting the Liberal Party’s motion today, and I will go through the motion bit by bit.
The motion is really putting on paper the outrageous and offensive advert that the Liberal Party are running in their attempt to damage my credibility. Good luck with that; I know you have to do it and we look forward to that continuing. That very positive campaign that Mr Seselja wanted to see went out the door at the first hurdle.
The issues around the health system are important and do require the Assembly to have the opportunity to debate them, but they also need to be seen in the context of the health system, the rebuild that we are doing of the health system and indeed the demand that has come. If you listened to Mr Hanson, you would not think there had been any increase in demand for health services at all over the course of this government—well, none that he is prepared to acknowledge—nor would you imagine that there had been one single positive improvement to the health system over the last few years, because you never hear that. He gets stuck in the speech—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MS GALLAGHER: that we hear time and time again in this place and refuses to acknowledge that the health system in 2012 is completely different from the health system of 2001. And, yes, I have never, ever said that there are—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MS GALLAGHER: Madam Deputy Speaker, I listened to Mr Hanson in silence.
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