Zoe McKenzie (Flinders, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to raise the issue of the Rosebud Hospital on the southern Mornington Peninsula again. I have raised it before; I've raised it in the news, I've raised it with my local council, I've raised it with the state opposition and I've raised it with the state government—whose responsibility it is to rebuild it—repeatedly.

I have some good news. Last week, Labor MLC Tom McIntosh stood in front of the hospital with a merry bunch of Labor supporters and friends to declare that the Rosebud Hospital is here to stay. He then went on to announce a new public melanoma clinic at Rosebud Hospital, where patients are now able to be seen and treated in the one appointment. 'Yay!' I think, 'That's great!' The Mornington Peninsula has one of the highest rates of melanoma countrywide, and I thanked you, Labor, for this investment—until I read the fine print and realised it's got nothing to do with a new investment and everything to do with Labor's forced merger between Peninsula Health and Alfred Health to make Bayside Health. So, if Rosebud hospital is indeed here to stay, where is the $340 million needed to rebuild it? Right now, that hospital is in a perilous state. The doors are too small for modern hospital beds to navigate, maternity is closed, surgery is closed and the roof collapses from time to time. This is Labor once again making false promises to my community. Own it. Fix it. We have waited long enough.