Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. It follows on from the answer that the Minister for Health and Ageing has just given. Isn’t it the case, Prime Minister, that Liberal Senator Parry’s observation in the lift yesterday that your takeover of the Mersey hospital was a disaster is verified by a letter from Senator Parry to the Tasmanian Minister for Health and Human Services, dated 7 February 2007, in which he states:

... our situation requires a whole of state approach with State-wide services provided in a rational manner.

The best model, in my view, is ... where Tasmania would develop three centres of excellence.

Hobart, Launceston and Burnie would appear to be the logical choice.

It was signed ‘Senator Stephen Parry, Liberal, Tasmania’.

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