❓ Question regarding details of significant funding for Aboriginal health services. The Minister provides a breakdown of state and federal funding commitments, highlighting the state's rollout and expressing disappointment in the delayed federal contribution.
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ABORIGINAL HEALTH SERVICES — FUNDING
This government is focused on ensuring the proceeds of our good economic management are used to deliver better health, education, police and social services. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr M.J. COWPER : Can the minister please inform the house of the details of the significant funding for Aboriginal health services that he announced today? The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES
This government is focused on ensuring the proceeds of our good economic management are used to deliver better health, education, police and social services. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr M.J. COWPER : Can the minister please inform the house of the details of the significant funding for Aboriginal health services that he announced today? The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES
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Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr M.J. COWPER : Can the minister please inform the house of the details of the significant funding for Aboriginal health services that he announced today? The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr M.J. COWPER : Can the minister please inform the house of the details of the significant funding for Aboriginal health services that he announced today? The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Mr M.J. COWPER : Can the minister please inform the house of the details of the significant funding for Aboriginal health services that he announced today? The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr M.J. COWPER : Can the minister please inform the house of the details of the significant funding for Aboriginal health services that he announced today? The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Mr M.J. COWPER : Can the minister please inform the house of the details of the significant funding for Aboriginal health services that he announced today? The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Mr M.J. COWPER : Can the minister please inform the house of the details of the significant funding for Aboriginal health services that he announced today? The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
The SPEAKER : Minister. Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES replied: Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Sorry! Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Several members interjected. Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : What an excellent question—what was it? I thank the member — Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
The SPEAKER : Thank you, members! Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : I thank the member for the question. I have to say that there was a reasonable amount of interjection during his question, which made it very difficult to hear. As it happens, I do know what he asked—I am not sure quite how that came to be! We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
We had a great opportunity this morning to announce to the public the details of the finalised Council of Australian Governments agreement payments by this state for the closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes funding. There was an agreement, as part of that COAG management, to commonwealth and state commitments to funding to close the huge gap in life expectancy and opportunities for proper health management for Aboriginal people. Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Mr E.S. Ripper : What were the amounts from each level of government? Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : The state commitment was $117 million going into health. Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Mr E.S. Ripper : And the federal commitment? Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : The federal commitment was in the order of $100 million. I have to say that so far we have seen the colour of only about $2 million of that, so the time taken for the rollout is very disappointing. I think that shows members, when we are concerned about commonwealth takeover of services in this state, that here we have a joint agreement signed by Treasurers and the commonwealth in 2008, and we are rolling ours out as of today—$128 million. Included in that is about $19 million in commonwealth funds. The total rollout announced today is $145 million all up. Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Mr E.S. Ripper : How much will you spend this financial year? The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
The SPEAKER : Leader of the Opposition! Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
Dr K.D. HAMES : We have gone out to talk to a large number of groups about specific programs throughout the length and breadth of Western Australia. We now have $128 million that, as of today, will be going out through contracting of services to various groups. Some of it will stay with the health service through the rolling out of state health services, but a significant proportion—about 40 per cent—will, at my suggestion, go to the Aboriginal medical services. Rather than us trying to duplicate services that are already being provided across the state, it is our view that the Aboriginal medical services provide an amazingly good quality service across a lot of areas that the state government possibly could not match, particularly in terms of childhood health, maternal health and mental health. That accounts for about 40 per cent of the funding going out, particularly to the member for Kimberley’s electorate; about $22 million will go to the Kimberley, of which 60 per cent or more will go to the Aboriginal medical service. The areas of particular focus for those funds are tobacco smoking amongst Aboriginal people, child health, maternal health and mental health. The funds are going across Western Australia to all regions—$14.669 million will go to the member for Pilbara’s electorate. It is a massive rollout of state government money, and we look forward to commonwealth money being brought to the plate. The commonwealth government has done a lot of work and has made that commitment, but the money is not there yet. Between the two of us, we will, over time, be able to make a huge difference to health outcomes for Aboriginal people in this state.
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