❓ Mr. Barron-Sullivan questions the Health Minister about the benefits for country and rural residents from the $40m allocation from the AlintaGas sale. The Minister's response focuses on the government's comprehensive plan and criticizes the Labor Party's alternative proposal.
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Will the minister detail to residents of country regions and remote rural areas the benefits of the Government’s decision to allocate $40m from the sale of AlintaGas to the Health portfolio? Mr DAY
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. As we heard from the Premier earlier this afternoon, the Government’s decision to spend $40m on health will result in substantial benefits to people throughout Western Australia whether they be in rural, regional or remote areas or in the metropolitan area. The Government has devised a comprehensive and well thought out plan, contrary to the Labor Party’s suggestion that it was no more than tinkering around the edges. It is a rational plan based on good advice from the health system in Western Australia and it is in stark contrast to the stunt the Labor Party pulled last Saturday when it announced it would spend $41.5m on two hospitals in the metropolitan area. The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
Mr DAY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. As we heard from the Premier earlier this afternoon, the Government’s decision to spend $40m on health will result in substantial benefits to people throughout Western Australia whether they be in rural, regional or remote areas or in the metropolitan area. The Government has devised a comprehensive and well thought out plan, contrary to the Labor Party’s suggestion that it was no more than tinkering around the edges. It is a rational plan based on good advice from the health system in Western Australia and it is in stark contrast to the stunt the Labor Party pulled last Saturday when it announced it would spend $41.5m on two hospitals in the metropolitan area. The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. As we heard from the Premier earlier this afternoon, the Government’s decision to spend $40m on health will result in substantial benefits to people throughout Western Australia whether they be in rural, regional or remote areas or in the metropolitan area. The Government has devised a comprehensive and well thought out plan, contrary to the Labor Party’s suggestion that it was no more than tinkering around the edges. It is a rational plan based on good advice from the health system in Western Australia and it is in stark contrast to the stunt the Labor Party pulled last Saturday when it announced it would spend $41.5m on two hospitals in the metropolitan area. The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
As we heard from the Premier earlier this afternoon, the Government’s decision to spend $40m on health will result in substantial benefits to people throughout Western Australia whether they be in rural, regional or remote areas or in the metropolitan area. The Government has devised a comprehensive and well thought out plan, contrary to the Labor Party’s suggestion that it was no more than tinkering around the edges. It is a rational plan based on good advice from the health system in Western Australia and it is in stark contrast to the stunt the Labor Party pulled last Saturday when it announced it would spend $41.5m on two hospitals in the metropolitan area. The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
Mr DAY replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. As we heard from the Premier earlier this afternoon, the Government’s decision to spend $40m on health will result in substantial benefits to people throughout Western Australia whether they be in rural, regional or remote areas or in the metropolitan area. The Government has devised a comprehensive and well thought out plan, contrary to the Labor Party’s suggestion that it was no more than tinkering around the edges. It is a rational plan based on good advice from the health system in Western Australia and it is in stark contrast to the stunt the Labor Party pulled last Saturday when it announced it would spend $41.5m on two hospitals in the metropolitan area. The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. As we heard from the Premier earlier this afternoon, the Government’s decision to spend $40m on health will result in substantial benefits to people throughout Western Australia whether they be in rural, regional or remote areas or in the metropolitan area. The Government has devised a comprehensive and well thought out plan, contrary to the Labor Party’s suggestion that it was no more than tinkering around the edges. It is a rational plan based on good advice from the health system in Western Australia and it is in stark contrast to the stunt the Labor Party pulled last Saturday when it announced it would spend $41.5m on two hospitals in the metropolitan area. The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
As we heard from the Premier earlier this afternoon, the Government’s decision to spend $40m on health will result in substantial benefits to people throughout Western Australia whether they be in rural, regional or remote areas or in the metropolitan area. The Government has devised a comprehensive and well thought out plan, contrary to the Labor Party’s suggestion that it was no more than tinkering around the edges. It is a rational plan based on good advice from the health system in Western Australia and it is in stark contrast to the stunt the Labor Party pulled last Saturday when it announced it would spend $41.5m on two hospitals in the metropolitan area. The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
The map of Western Australia that I hold indicates the dispersal of funds by the coalition throughout Western Australia from Denmark, Albany, Ravensthorpe, Esperance, Augusta, Pemberton, Manjimup in the south to the wheatbelt area, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne, the Murchison and the Kimberley areas including Wyndham, Kununurra, Halls Creek, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing and Broome. It is more than a plan; it is the culmination of a wise decision to make available $40m from the proceeds of the sale of AlintaGas. The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
The Labor Party’s funding plan to spend $41.5m is represented on a blank map because the funds are allocated to two hospitals in the metropolitan area, shown on the map as one miserable dot. Compared with the coalition’s comprehensive plan, the Labor Party’s priorities do not even acknowledge that the rest of Western Australia exists. In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
In the unlikely event it is elected to office, the Labor Party must explain whether it will honour the commitments made by this Government: Will it tell the people in Fremantle that Fremantle Hospital will not get an MRI machine or a new operating theatre; or the electors of Midland, Swan Hills, Darling Range, Bassendean and so on that the Swan District Hospital will not receive 40 additional beds; or the people in Rockingham that the Rockingham-Kwinana District Hospital will not be provided with 30 additional beds; or the people in the Kimberley that they will not get $2m for housing? If the Labor Party intends to fulfil that commitment, it must find an extra $34.5m. If it will not fulfil that commitment, it must say so.
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