Dave Tollner (Solomon, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise today to speak in relation to the state of the Northern Territory health system. It is great cause for concern. It is a system that I feel I have to raise in this adjournment debate this afternoon. The Northern Territory health system, run by the Labor administration, is in a critical and unstable condition, despite enormous financial support from the federal government, and has been a staple media headline for months now. The common diagnosis, it seems, is that the Territory is currently plagued by a full-blown raging epidemic. It is not a mutant virus affecting the Territory, though; it is a sick and failing government that must be revived. The fact is, the only reason the hospital system has not totally failed yet is because of the gargantuan efforts of the health professionals who have gone above and beyond their call of duty.

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