❓ Mr Kirkup questions the Minister for Health about the Joondalup Health Campus redevelopment, alleging broken election promises and voter abandonment. The Minister defends the government's commitment to healthcare in the northern suburbs, highlighting existing improvements and criticising the previous government's inaction.
AnsweredQoN 806Legislative Assembly
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JOONDALUP HEALTH CAMPUS — REDEVELOPMENT
806. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Minister for Health:
I have a supplementary question.
Mr F.M. Logan : Do you really
want a supplementary?
Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP : Yes.
The minister's failure to
fund his election promise for the Joondalup Health Campus expansion is the main
reason why voters from Burns Beach, Joondalup, Wanneroo, Ocean Reef and the
future seats of Kingsway and Kingsley are abandoning the WA Labor Party in
droves.
Several members interjected.
Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP : It is in
the paper. Have members seen that poll? How is that going?
Ms S.E. Winton interjected.
The SPEAKER : What you are
doing is getting called to order for the first time.
806. Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP to the Minister for Health:
I have a supplementary question.
Mr F.M. Logan : Do you really
want a supplementary?
Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP : Yes.
The minister's failure to
fund his election promise for the Joondalup Health Campus expansion is the main
reason why voters from Burns Beach, Joondalup, Wanneroo, Ocean Reef and the
future seats of Kingsway and Kingsley are abandoning the WA Labor Party in
droves.
Several members interjected.
Mr Z.R.F. KIRKUP : It is in
the paper. Have members seen that poll? How is that going?
Ms S.E. Winton interjected.
The SPEAKER : What you are
doing is getting called to order for the first time.
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If the member wants to support the
suspension of standing orders so that he can provide us with a briefing on this
secret polling, the polling that is so secret they will not even tell us who or
what it is that they are polling, but they are polling—wait, there is
something in the waters; we feel it! We are feeling that things are back on
track. There is more spin in that exercise than in the aforementioned yoga
class. We have a sense, Mr Speaker. We have a sense.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members!
Mr R.H. COOK : They gave a drop
to The West Australian and it was a blank piece of paper: ''Here's
the polling. You can't see it. We can't tell you anything it,
but it's good—trust us.''
The members of the northern suburbs
know the commitment that we have made to them. They know that the McGowan
government is putting patients first. They have seen already the development of
the stroke unit at Joondalup Health Campus, something which the members of the
Joondalup community have called for for many years. Throughout the eight and a half
years members opposite were in office they ignored the pleas of people in the
northern suburbs to have a stroke unit in that area and they ignored the pleas
of the people in the northern suburbs to upgrade Osborne Park Hospital, which
we are now doing. We will undertake the redevelopment of Joondalup hospital so
that it can continue to provide great health care for people of the northern
suburbs because they know that the McGowan Labor government puts patients first.
The SPEAKER : That is the end
of question time.
suspension of standing orders so that he can provide us with a briefing on this
secret polling, the polling that is so secret they will not even tell us who or
what it is that they are polling, but they are polling—wait, there is
something in the waters; we feel it! We are feeling that things are back on
track. There is more spin in that exercise than in the aforementioned yoga
class. We have a sense, Mr Speaker. We have a sense.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members!
Mr R.H. COOK : They gave a drop
to The West Australian and it was a blank piece of paper: ''Here's
the polling. You can't see it. We can't tell you anything it,
but it's good—trust us.''
The members of the northern suburbs
know the commitment that we have made to them. They know that the McGowan
government is putting patients first. They have seen already the development of
the stroke unit at Joondalup Health Campus, something which the members of the
Joondalup community have called for for many years. Throughout the eight and a half
years members opposite were in office they ignored the pleas of people in the
northern suburbs to have a stroke unit in that area and they ignored the pleas
of the people in the northern suburbs to upgrade Osborne Park Hospital, which
we are now doing. We will undertake the redevelopment of Joondalup hospital so
that it can continue to provide great health care for people of the northern
suburbs because they know that the McGowan Labor government puts patients first.
The SPEAKER : That is the end
of question time.
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