Page 1660 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 7 May 2013
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before the election, in a debate said, “All of our plans are on the table,” which was a lie, because they were not. The reality was that she had been asking for a heads of agreement to be signed by the Little Company of Mary about Calvary hospital, and she had quite mature plans about Calvary hospital and the sale of Calvary hospital—the government were going to buy it and get rid of Clare Holland House.
Ms Gallagher: Oh, stumpy!
MR HANSON: Yes, it is a stump speech but it is no less true, is it, no matter how many times I say it? It does not go away, does it? The problem is that when you hide things, when you do something like that, when lies are told and promises are broken, you cannot wash that away, as much as you would like to. I know that you would like to think, “We had an election, so that’s all behind us,” but the sad reality is that these things do tend to build up and, after a time, when you have a government that has been around for a long time, these lies, these deceits, these broken promises tend to build up and it is the baggage that starts to weigh down these governments that have been around for a long time.
We also had the issue of obstetrics bullying. Remember that one? A number of doctors resigned because of bullying. The Chief Minister said, “Nothing to see here; this is all just mud-slinging by a bunch of doctors.” But that was not quite the case, was it, because when the review came back it said that there were problems; there had been a series of complaints that had been made. But it was all trying to be pushed under the mattress, so to speak. The Chief Minister at the time, supported by the current Chief Minister, went out and said, “We’re going to threaten these doctors. We’re going to do a review of all of the medical board investigations over the last decade.” It was rightly called a witch-hunt by the AMA and others. That is the way this mob operate. When you start to scratch the surface, when you start to expose the problems that are here, they will attack and they will go you. And that is what we have seen. The AMA said it. It was a witch hunt. There were thinly-veiled threats. They were not too thinly veiled either, I would have to say.
Ms Gallagher: You know nothing about witch-hunts, do you, Jeremy? The head of the witch-hunt.
MR HANSON: Then what we do is we see the Greens—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, would you resume your seat for one second?
MR HANSON: Sure.
MR ASSISANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson and Ms Gallagher, I know how much you enjoy your fireside chats, but please, we are still working under the standing orders, so address your remarks through me, thank you.
MR HANSON: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. I will turn to the Greens now, so that we get away from that one. What we see from Mr Rattenbury again is this difference between the rhetoric and the reality. Remember on radio a couple of weeks
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