❓ A parliamentary question regarding the Treasurer's guarantee of employment figures for police and nurses. The Treasurer avoids a direct guarantee, stating the figures are correct and rounded, and justifies the increase in nurses due to increased health spending.
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Will the Treasurer absolutely guarantee the employment figures that he just announced for police and nurses? Mr E.S. RIPPER
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I am really getting a pounding today! This is murderous. How can I possibly stand it? I will have to sit down, because it is too painful. Of course the figures are correct. I have obviously rounded them, because I do not have pieces of paper in front of me. A Government does not spend $800 million a year more on health without getting a few extra nurses into the system.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: I am really getting a pounding today! This is murderous. How can I possibly stand it? I will have to sit down, because it is too painful. Of course the figures are correct. I have obviously rounded them, because I do not have pieces of paper in front of me. A Government does not spend $800 million a year more on health without getting a few extra nurses into the system.
I am really getting a pounding today! This is murderous. How can I possibly stand it? I will have to sit down, because it is too painful. Of course the figures are correct. I have obviously rounded them, because I do not have pieces of paper in front of me. A Government does not spend $800 million a year more on health without getting a few extra nurses into the system.
Mr E.S. RIPPER replied: I am really getting a pounding today! This is murderous. How can I possibly stand it? I will have to sit down, because it is too painful. Of course the figures are correct. I have obviously rounded them, because I do not have pieces of paper in front of me. A Government does not spend $800 million a year more on health without getting a few extra nurses into the system.
I am really getting a pounding today! This is murderous. How can I possibly stand it? I will have to sit down, because it is too painful. Of course the figures are correct. I have obviously rounded them, because I do not have pieces of paper in front of me. A Government does not spend $800 million a year more on health without getting a few extra nurses into the system.
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