❓ Question regarding the funding source for a new Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft. The Minister denies the claim that the RFDS had to use existing funds and instead emphasizes state and federal government cooperation.
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I refer the minister to the launch of the new aircraft of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, which the minister and I recently attended with the federal Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister confirm that to purchase that aircraft, the Royal Flying Doctor Service was required to use funds from its existing budget and that no additional state funds were provided for that aircraft, which is contrary to announcements that were made about state support? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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No, I cannot because I do not believe that is true. The federal minister, Tony Abbott, and I sat at the rostrum and looked down on the assembled gathering. They were very appreciative of the great contribution that had been made by the State and federal Governments to fund the Royal Flying Doctor Service and, in particular, to fund the establishment of the new plane to service people in the Kimberley region. The new plane will replace an obsolete aircraft that currently operates out of the Derby base. Among the sea of grateful and appreciative faces was a face that had a particularly dark cloud over it and that looked very glum; it was the face of the member for Murdoch. Do members know why he was so glum? It is because his federal colleague Tony Abbott and I had come from Royal Perth Hospital, at which we had made a historic announcement. For years and years people have talked about the need for the State and federal Governments to cooperate and work constructively together to establish general practitioner clinics, collocated with emergency departments, to provide not only after-hours GP services but also a means of taking pressure off those emergency departments. The old Perth Dental Hospital, which is currently in the process of being renovated, will provide a magnificent facility. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: No, I cannot because I do not believe that is true. The federal minister, Tony Abbott, and I sat at the rostrum and looked down on the assembled gathering. They were very appreciative of the great contribution that had been made by the State and federal Governments to fund the Royal Flying Doctor Service and, in particular, to fund the establishment of the new plane to service people in the Kimberley region. The new plane will replace an obsolete aircraft that currently operates out of the Derby base. Among the sea of grateful and appreciative faces was a face that had a particularly dark cloud over it and that looked very glum; it was the face of the member for Murdoch. Do members know why he was so glum? It is because his federal colleague Tony Abbott and I had come from Royal Perth Hospital, at which we had made a historic announcement. For years and years people have talked about the need for the State and federal Governments to cooperate and work constructively together to establish general practitioner clinics, collocated with emergency departments, to provide not only after-hours GP services but also a means of taking pressure off those emergency departments. The old Perth Dental Hospital, which is currently in the process of being renovated, will provide a magnificent facility. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
No, I cannot because I do not believe that is true. The federal minister, Tony Abbott, and I sat at the rostrum and looked down on the assembled gathering. They were very appreciative of the great contribution that had been made by the State and federal Governments to fund the Royal Flying Doctor Service and, in particular, to fund the establishment of the new plane to service people in the Kimberley region. The new plane will replace an obsolete aircraft that currently operates out of the Derby base. Among the sea of grateful and appreciative faces was a face that had a particularly dark cloud over it and that looked very glum; it was the face of the member for Murdoch. Do members know why he was so glum? It is because his federal colleague Tony Abbott and I had come from Royal Perth Hospital, at which we had made a historic announcement. For years and years people have talked about the need for the State and federal Governments to cooperate and work constructively together to establish general practitioner clinics, collocated with emergency departments, to provide not only after-hours GP services but also a means of taking pressure off those emergency departments. The old Perth Dental Hospital, which is currently in the process of being renovated, will provide a magnificent facility. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: No, I cannot because I do not believe that is true. The federal minister, Tony Abbott, and I sat at the rostrum and looked down on the assembled gathering. They were very appreciative of the great contribution that had been made by the State and federal Governments to fund the Royal Flying Doctor Service and, in particular, to fund the establishment of the new plane to service people in the Kimberley region. The new plane will replace an obsolete aircraft that currently operates out of the Derby base. Among the sea of grateful and appreciative faces was a face that had a particularly dark cloud over it and that looked very glum; it was the face of the member for Murdoch. Do members know why he was so glum? It is because his federal colleague Tony Abbott and I had come from Royal Perth Hospital, at which we had made a historic announcement. For years and years people have talked about the need for the State and federal Governments to cooperate and work constructively together to establish general practitioner clinics, collocated with emergency departments, to provide not only after-hours GP services but also a means of taking pressure off those emergency departments. The old Perth Dental Hospital, which is currently in the process of being renovated, will provide a magnificent facility. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
No, I cannot because I do not believe that is true. The federal minister, Tony Abbott, and I sat at the rostrum and looked down on the assembled gathering. They were very appreciative of the great contribution that had been made by the State and federal Governments to fund the Royal Flying Doctor Service and, in particular, to fund the establishment of the new plane to service people in the Kimberley region. The new plane will replace an obsolete aircraft that currently operates out of the Derby base. Among the sea of grateful and appreciative faces was a face that had a particularly dark cloud over it and that looked very glum; it was the face of the member for Murdoch. Do members know why he was so glum? It is because his federal colleague Tony Abbott and I had come from Royal Perth Hospital, at which we had made a historic announcement. For years and years people have talked about the need for the State and federal Governments to cooperate and work constructively together to establish general practitioner clinics, collocated with emergency departments, to provide not only after-hours GP services but also a means of taking pressure off those emergency departments. The old Perth Dental Hospital, which is currently in the process of being renovated, will provide a magnificent facility. Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
Mr M.F. Board interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
Mr J.A. McGINTY: We have done it. The former Government could not do it, even though a federal Government of the same political persuasion was in power. It took my good friend Tony Abbott and I to do it. That is why the member for Murdoch was looking very dark. It was like Harmony Day. My good friend Tony Abbott and I were arm in arm, and we provided a significant amount of funding from the State and federal Governments to significantly upgrade the fleet of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The member for Murdoch hated every minute of it. He did not like it at all. What the public wants in health care in this State is cooperation, not division. It wants all levels of government to cooperate. It wants to see cooperation between the Australian Medical Association and the divisions of general practice. The Government has achieved that with the AMA. As members are aware, the Government settled the AMA’s enterprise bargaining agreement, which was expected to be problematic, without an angry word being spoken in the public arena. That was a phenomenal achievement. The Government is working on building those partnerships, and making sure that the public of Western Australia can look to their political leaders, regardless of their political colour, and know that they are working cooperatively to deliver better health care for all Western Australians.
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