Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

This is another attempt by the government to hide from their own record on health funding. The coalition government is cutting $6.9 million from the Queensland Children's Hospital between 2017 and 2020 alone. This is part of a massive $160 million cut to Queensland hospitals over the same period. The LNP in opposition in Queensland has drummed up a fake scandal about the children's hospital name, because they have no health policies of their own. They are too weak to call out their mates here in Canberra over their hospital funding cuts. The Queensland government changed the name of the hospital to Queensland Children's Hospital following requests from doctors and staff at the hospital and taking into account a range of considerations. The medical staff association had been campaigning to change the name of the hospital ever since the Newman government named the facility, in late 2013, without any public consultation whatsoever. A petition with almost 1,000 staff signatures calling for the facility's name to change was given to the Queensland health minister recently. (Time expired)