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

She was hopeless. He declared that he would bring the hospital system into an orderly state. Within weeks of that, he announced that he was giving serious thought to retiring from politics. In June 2005, as part of the Martin Labor government’s election campaign, the health minister promised that another 48 beds would be provided to Northern Territory hospitals. None of these will be delivered before 2008, with 16 being delivered in 2008 and the rest being delivered in 2009. By July 2005, we discovered the problem of a growing waiting list for elective surgery, with one patient who required a hip replacement having his surgery deferred six times in the previous 12 months.

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