❓ Mr Board questions Premier Gallop about increased hospital bypasses, suggesting a health system crisis. Gallop deflects, blaming the previous government and outlining ongoing reforms.
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HOSPITALS, AMBULANCE BYPASSES 441. Mr BOARD to the Premier: I refer the Premier to his campaign launch speech dated 4 February 2001, in which he said that when ambulances are forced to drive the streets of Perth to find an emergency ward that can accept patients, that is a crisis. Given that for the seven months to September this year, the time during which the three major teaching hospitals have been on bypass has increased by more than 1 000 per cent - 10 times - will the Premier now admit that under this Government, the public health system is indeed in crisis? Dr GALLOP
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In opposition and now in government, I have said very clearly that there is a solution to the problems in our health system but it will take some time. First, we inherited a system in an absolute mess. Like the budget of Western Australia, the administration of the health system was in a total mess. The first thing that the Minister for Health did was to set up a review of the administrative structure. We are in the process of establishing reforms. Secondly, a major crisis occurred with our nurses. We have settled that, and are committed to increasing the number of nurses in the system. Thirdly, the system in Western Australia that was set up in the late 1980s and early 1990s shifted some of the focus of health onto the prevention side of the equation. All those gains made in the late 1980s and early 1990s were lost under the coalition Government. At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
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I refer the Premier to his campaign launch speech dated 4 February 2001, in which he said that when ambulances are forced to drive the streets of Perth to find an emergency ward that can accept patients, that is a crisis. Given that for the seven months to September this year, the time during which the three major teaching hospitals have been on bypass has increased by more than 1 000 per cent - 10 times - will the Premier now admit that under this Government, the public health system is indeed in crisis? Dr GALLOP replied: In opposition and now in government, I have said very clearly that there is a solution to the problems in our health system but it will take some time. First, we inherited a system in an absolute mess. Like the budget of Western Australia, the administration of the health system was in a total mess. The first thing that the Minister for Health did was to set up a review of the administrative structure. We are in the process of establishing reforms. Secondly, a major crisis occurred with our nurses. We have settled that, and are committed to increasing the number of nurses in the system. Thirdly, the system in Western Australia that was set up in the late 1980s and early 1990s shifted some of the focus of health onto the prevention side of the equation. All those gains made in the late 1980s and early 1990s were lost under the coalition Government. At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Dr GALLOP replied: In opposition and now in government, I have said very clearly that there is a solution to the problems in our health system but it will take some time. First, we inherited a system in an absolute mess. Like the budget of Western Australia, the administration of the health system was in a total mess. The first thing that the Minister for Health did was to set up a review of the administrative structure. We are in the process of establishing reforms. Secondly, a major crisis occurred with our nurses. We have settled that, and are committed to increasing the number of nurses in the system. Thirdly, the system in Western Australia that was set up in the late 1980s and early 1990s shifted some of the focus of health onto the prevention side of the equation. All those gains made in the late 1980s and early 1990s were lost under the coalition Government. At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
In opposition and now in government, I have said very clearly that there is a solution to the problems in our health system but it will take some time. First, we inherited a system in an absolute mess. Like the budget of Western Australia, the administration of the health system was in a total mess. The first thing that the Minister for Health did was to set up a review of the administrative structure. We are in the process of establishing reforms. Secondly, a major crisis occurred with our nurses. We have settled that, and are committed to increasing the number of nurses in the system. Thirdly, the system in Western Australia that was set up in the late 1980s and early 1990s shifted some of the focus of health onto the prevention side of the equation. All those gains made in the late 1980s and early 1990s were lost under the coalition Government. At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
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I refer the Premier to his campaign launch speech dated 4 February 2001, in which he said that when ambulances are forced to drive the streets of Perth to find an emergency ward that can accept patients, that is a crisis. Given that for the seven months to September this year, the time during which the three major teaching hospitals have been on bypass has increased by more than 1 000 per cent - 10 times - will the Premier now admit that under this Government, the public health system is indeed in crisis? Dr GALLOP replied: In opposition and now in government, I have said very clearly that there is a solution to the problems in our health system but it will take some time. First, we inherited a system in an absolute mess. Like the budget of Western Australia, the administration of the health system was in a total mess. The first thing that the Minister for Health did was to set up a review of the administrative structure. We are in the process of establishing reforms. Secondly, a major crisis occurred with our nurses. We have settled that, and are committed to increasing the number of nurses in the system. Thirdly, the system in Western Australia that was set up in the late 1980s and early 1990s shifted some of the focus of health onto the prevention side of the equation. All those gains made in the late 1980s and early 1990s were lost under the coalition Government. At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Dr GALLOP replied: In opposition and now in government, I have said very clearly that there is a solution to the problems in our health system but it will take some time. First, we inherited a system in an absolute mess. Like the budget of Western Australia, the administration of the health system was in a total mess. The first thing that the Minister for Health did was to set up a review of the administrative structure. We are in the process of establishing reforms. Secondly, a major crisis occurred with our nurses. We have settled that, and are committed to increasing the number of nurses in the system. Thirdly, the system in Western Australia that was set up in the late 1980s and early 1990s shifted some of the focus of health onto the prevention side of the equation. All those gains made in the late 1980s and early 1990s were lost under the coalition Government. At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
In opposition and now in government, I have said very clearly that there is a solution to the problems in our health system but it will take some time. First, we inherited a system in an absolute mess. Like the budget of Western Australia, the administration of the health system was in a total mess. The first thing that the Minister for Health did was to set up a review of the administrative structure. We are in the process of establishing reforms. Secondly, a major crisis occurred with our nurses. We have settled that, and are committed to increasing the number of nurses in the system. Thirdly, the system in Western Australia that was set up in the late 1980s and early 1990s shifted some of the focus of health onto the prevention side of the equation. All those gains made in the late 1980s and early 1990s were lost under the coalition Government. At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
At the next sitting of Parliament, like that member of the Opposition, I will come into this Chamber with a big copy of The West Australian from early 1993. It will show the state of our health system when Labor left office. It will state that Western Australia’s health system was the best in Australia. That was the situation when the Opposition took over the Government of Western Australia. Step by step, bit by bit, it dismantled the system. Senior administrators left the system. There was no coherent approach to health prevention measures. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Mr Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Dr GALLOP: Minute by minute, hour by hour, month by month, year by year, we will restore the Western Australian health system. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the second time. Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
Dr GALLOP: We will restore the health system to where it should be. It will take time. I say this to those people who work in the health system, be they doctors or nurses: if they place unreasonable demands on the Government, our Government will stand up for the public interest. The Opposition is bereft of ideas. When did the Opposition have an idea on health? It had none in all its time in government. All the thinking that has gone into the restoration in Western Australia has come from the Labor Party. We now have a health minister with the strength, capacity and knowledge to carry that out. I find it pathetic that the Opposition comes in here campaigning on behalf of one interest group. Do members know who the Government of Western Australia campaigns on behalf of? It campaigns on behalf of the public of Western Australia.
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