The Royal Hobart Hospital ED redevelopment is a critical project, but leaked health department emails show it has been dumped and replaced with an alternative that’s not fit for purpose now, let alone in the future.
After neglecting our health system for a decade, the Liberals recently reached a new low with their ‘vacancy control’ cuts to staffing. But they’ve already outdone themselves by trashing the critical project to upgrade the Royal Hobart Hospital’s emergency department.
How can this government push ahead with building a billion-dollar stadium we don’t need, while making cuts to health infrastructure we can’t do without? It’s absolutely cooked.
It’s so important our hospitals get the investment they need to make sure our community is looked after properly – now and in the future. Failing to do that is nothing short of a betrayal of the Tasmanian people at the hands of the Rockliff government.
If we’re really serious about the health of Tasmanians, we need spending on health to be a top priority. Under the Liberals, that’s not the case.
With a $1.2 billion budget deficit and massive cuts already being made to health, it’s well past time the Liberals abandoned their attempt to build a billion-dollar stadium in Hobart.
