❓ Opposition questions the Premier about ambulance ramping at Royal Perth Hospital, referencing a previous campaign promise. The Premier deflects, blaming the Commonwealth for systemic issues and highlighting state government investments.
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I refer the Premier to his campaign launch speech of 4 February 2001 in which he stated - When ambulances are forced to drive the streets of Perth to find an emergency ward that can accept patients, that is a crisis. I remind the Premier that speech was made over two and a half years ago. (1) Is the Premier aware that seven ambulances were simultaneously ramped - that is, not able to deliver their patients to the emergency ward - at Royal Perth Hospital yesterday? (2) Is the Premier further aware that one of those ambulances was ramped with a patient waiting for treatment for over two hours? (3) Is the Premier further aware that St John Ambulance Australia ambulances were ramped at the hospital for a total of eight hours yesterday? (4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP
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(1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(1) Is the Premier aware that seven ambulances were simultaneously ramped - that is, not able to deliver their patients to the emergency ward - at Royal Perth Hospital yesterday? (2) Is the Premier further aware that one of those ambulances was ramped with a patient waiting for treatment for over two hours? (3) Is the Premier further aware that St John Ambulance Australia ambulances were ramped at the hospital for a total of eight hours yesterday? (4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(2) Is the Premier further aware that one of those ambulances was ramped with a patient waiting for treatment for over two hours? (3) Is the Premier further aware that St John Ambulance Australia ambulances were ramped at the hospital for a total of eight hours yesterday? (4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(3) Is the Premier further aware that St John Ambulance Australia ambulances were ramped at the hospital for a total of eight hours yesterday? (4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(1) Is the Premier aware that seven ambulances were simultaneously ramped - that is, not able to deliver their patients to the emergency ward - at Royal Perth Hospital yesterday? (2) Is the Premier further aware that one of those ambulances was ramped with a patient waiting for treatment for over two hours? (3) Is the Premier further aware that St John Ambulance Australia ambulances were ramped at the hospital for a total of eight hours yesterday? (4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(2) Is the Premier further aware that one of those ambulances was ramped with a patient waiting for treatment for over two hours? (3) Is the Premier further aware that St John Ambulance Australia ambulances were ramped at the hospital for a total of eight hours yesterday? (4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(3) Is the Premier further aware that St John Ambulance Australia ambulances were ramped at the hospital for a total of eight hours yesterday? (4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(4) Will the Premier now concede that with unprecedented levels of ambulance bypass and ramping, it is time for his Government to take real action to alleviate the growing crisis rather than engage in publicity stunts? Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP replied: (1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
(1)-(4) The Minister for Health has already answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: No he has not. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has answered a question today. Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: He is quoted in The West Australian as saying that he has nothing to say. Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: He made a very good point; that is, our State’s health system, in particular its public hospital system, is under enormous pressure. The hospital system is under pressure as a result of changes that are occurring in our society, which are not being properly dealt with by the Commonwealth. Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: You cannot blame this on the Commonwealth. It has nothing to do with the Commonwealth, and you know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I beg to differ. I think that Professor John Dwyer knows a lot more about the health system than does the member for Murdoch. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised you would fix the system. Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: We cannot run our own hospitals. The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
The SPEAKER: Member for Murdoch! Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: Has the member for Murdoch read the report that was delivered by the health forum? Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr R.F. Johnson: Are we in crisis? Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am asking the member a question. Has he read the report delivered by Professor John Dwyer from the health forum that was held in Canberra? Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: Not only have I read it but I was also at the health forum. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: Excellent. What did Professor John Dwyer say about the pressures on emergency departments? Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: It was a publicity stunt. Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: A publicity stunt! Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr M.F. Board: You know it. Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: Professor John Dwyer is engaged in a publicity stunt when on behalf of emergency departments throughout Australia he says that the Commonwealth Government is letting the team down! The Commonwealth Government is letting the team down. All the state Premiers made a point to that effect when in Canberra only a week ago. We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
We did make some commitments during the election campaign. We are engaged in an extensive capital works program in the State’s hospital emergency departments, which will make sure that the technology and the operation of those emergency departments are world class. We have made continual representations to the Commonwealth asking it to deal with the issue of the ageing of our society and the number of elderly Western Australians, and indeed elderly Australians, who are putting pressure on emergency departments and public hospitals, and who would be more appropriately located in nursing home beds. The member for Murdoch knows that is the case. Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr J.H.D. Day interjected. The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
The SPEAKER: Member for Darling Range! Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: I am sure the member for Murdoch would acknowledge that the State is experiencing a winter problem in the form of a particularly virulent strain of influenza. I hope that my good colleague, the Deputy Premier, who is not here today, recovers - Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Mr P.D. Omodei: Did he get bypassed? Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: He has a terrible case of influenza, as indeed have many Western Australian citizens. Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Yes, there are pressures on our emergency departments and, yes, we are carrying through our commitments, which we gave during the election campaign. No, the Commonwealth Government is not supporting us in terms of what we need to make the system work properly. Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Is it not a shame that when the State of Western Australia goes in to bat against the Commonwealth for the people of Western Australia, it does not go in with the full support of this Parliament? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
The SPEAKER: Order! I do not know what has happened to the member for Darling Range today but he should know that he is allowed to interject only when he asks a question. I call to order the members for Darling Range and Warren-Blackwood. Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
Dr G.I. GALLOP: The Western Australian Government accepts its responsibilities, including a 9.7 per cent increase in Western Australian taxpayers’ funds to the health system, a major upgrade of the emergency system, arrangements between the State Government and aged care providers to try to ease some of the pressures that currently exist, and continual representations to Canberra so it plays its role in trying to improve the situation instead of making it harder for the States. Perhaps the member for Murdoch should read today’s editorial in Brisbane’s The Courier-Mail , which supports the State Governments in the efforts they are making to get a better deal from the Commonwealth.
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