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Support for the State Government’s $1 billion waterfront hospital is vanishing. Two major health unions, the Health and Community Services Union and the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Nurses Federation have both backed the State Liberal’s call for the State Government to consider the potential of the existing Royal Hobart Hospital site.
Today’s “Elder Abuse Could Affect You” Forum will highlight the disturbing issue of elder abuse in Tasmanian communities.
In mid-October it is poverty week. For Tasmania this is of special significance. Tasmania has the highest rate of poverty in the country.
Kevin Rudd has dropped health from today’s COAG meeting.
Shadow Health and Human Services Minister, Brett Whiteley, has called on the State Government to freeze Housing Tasmania rent increases due to take effect next week, at least until the Federal Government has increased the pension.
The State Government’s abject failure to deliver affordable housing has been highlighted again, as yet another mooted project falls by the wayside
At the start of Mental Health Week, Shadow Minister for Health and Human Services, Brett Whiteley, has queried whether the State has fulfilled the objectives of its 2004 Bridging the Gap initiative.
If Premier, David Bartlett, is genuine about heeding the will of the community when it comes to waterfront development, then he will abandon Labor’s dumb idea for a $1 billion waterfront hospital.
Starting today, Housing Tasmania tenants will be forced to pay higher rents.
The State Opposition has reacted with disgust to the government’s announcement that it intends to spend $150,000 of taxpayers’ money trying to make the people of Tasmania agree with it about putting a new $1 billion hospital on Hobart’s waterfront.
The State Government’s decision to spend $150,000 on a public relations blitz for a new waterfront hospital shows total contempt for taxpayers.
Tasmania is the only Australian State that does not have an adolescent psychiatric ward, thus forcing the placement of teenagers into potentially unsuitable adult focused treatment environments.
The State Government has plumbed new depths in its politicisation of the State Service to try to manipulate public opinion.
The Premier is still refusing to say whether the long-overdue Hobart waterfront master plan will canvas options for the railyards site other than a $1 billion hospital.
The attempt today by the State Labor Government to mislead Tasmanians on the Liberals’ position on the new Royal Hobart Hospital is symptomatic of a government in turmoil, needing distraction.
The State Government needs to release the basic details underpinning its proposed $1 billion waterfront hospital, and a proposal for one of Australia’s tallest hospitals in the Hobart CBD.
Shadow Minister for Health and Human Services, Brett Whiteley, today welcomed the Tasmanian Council of Social Service’s 2009-10 State Budget submission, which reflects a number of Tasmanian Liberal policies, including student transport, a health promotion foundation and a health consumer body.
The State Government needs to release the basic details underpinning its proposed $1 billion waterfront hospital, and a proposal for one of Australia’s tallest hospitals in the Hobart CBD.
Given that taxpayer funded polling has shown that the Health Minister, Lara Giddings, has lost the trust of the community with her highly unpopular waterfront hospital proposal, the Minister is resorting to desperate diversionary tactics.
Liberal Member for Braddon, Brett Whiteley, has congratulated the Cradle Coast Young Professionals Network for its 2008 Conference and Summit - "Plugging In - Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?” - being held today.
The Royal Hobart Hospital is due to have been provided with a written report from the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards about how to lift its standards of governance.
Tomorrow is Pink Ribbon Day and a chance for all Tasmanians to support breast cancer research.
Leader of the State Opposition, Will Hodgman, welcomed a conference examining the theme of ‘fairer futures’, which will begin in Hobart tomorrow, saying that one of the Tasmanian Liberals’ key policies is for a Fairer Tasmania.
The Department of Health and Human Services 2007-08 Annual Report shows more money being spent, and more staff than ever before, with worsening results and poorer health outcomes for Tasmanians.
The Tasmanian Liberals today provided a written submission to the Legislative Council Select Committee Inquiry into Tasmania’s Public Hospital System
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