Michael Johnson (Ryan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Madam Deputy Speaker Burke, it is a pleasure to be speaking in the House of Representatives on an occasion where you are in the chair again on a successive occasion. It was very interesting to hear my Queensland colleague there, the member for Moreton, from the government’s party. I wonder if he has seen the front page of today’s Courier Mail which goes on about the absolutely decrepit state of Queensland Labor and the Queensland health department. Queensland currently is a dog’s breakfast of a state and, in particular, the Queensland health department is a dog’s breakfast of a department. It is about time that the Queensland government, the government of Premier Anna Bligh, and the Queensland bureaucracy, got their act together and served the people of Queensland. And in no area more than the area of health do they need absolutely first-class service.

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