Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

This is simply unacceptable behaviour from a New South Wales agency. Whatever is happening in Goulburn and elsewhere in this health area, there is certainly no lack of money in Macquarie Street. The Commonwealth government is giving New South Wales public hospitals almost $14 billion under the health care agreements. Then of course there is the $10 billion that the New South Wales government is getting this year through the GST.

I want to say to the New South Wales government that the closure of the children’s ward at Goulburn Hospital is a clear breach of the Australian health care agreement, and I call on the New South Wales government to immediately honour its obligations to the people of Goulburn and to other people living in southern New South Wales.

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