Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing, Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Why is the government heavying Senator Parry, as evidenced in the press release that the minister has just referred to, when his considered views are supported by locals like the Mayor of Burnie, the Burnie Chamber of Commerce, clinical staff at the hospital, the Tasmanian AMA and the Tasmanian health minister? Why has the government placed the advice of Canberra and Sydney based pollsters Crosby Textor ahead of Senator Parry from Tasmania, who has listened to Tasmanians and called the intervention a disaster?