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

And federal government money. In 2001, two major planks of Clare Martin’s ALP election promises were to reduce waiting lists and to provide an oncology unit for Territorians. Not only have they failed in this regard, but waiting lists are now double what they were when the Northern Territory Labor government came to office. Now they are calling on the federal government to provide even more funding for an oncology unit that they promised. The minister, Dr Peter Toyne, on receiving the health portfolio—after the earlier Labor minister was sacked in December 2003—declared that—

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