Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In July this year, paramedics across Western Australia spent more than 6½ thousand hours waiting outside our hospitals in a queue—waiting to ensure that their patients got the hospital care they need. This was the worst result since COVID in Western Australia. In fact, it is five times more than when the Liberal Party was last in government in Western Australia. Our health system in Western Australia is in complete crisis, which is unnecessary. It is being mismanaged by both Roger Cook and Anthony Albanese. In Western Australia's northern coastal suburbs, pressure continues to mount on the Joondalup Health Campus, which itself has recorded over 1,400 ambulance ramping hours over the last two months alone.

What is the response from Prime Minister Albanese and Premier Cook? Crickets. Nothing. Do you know where the money has gone? Metronet. The state Labor government, aided and abetted by Anthony Albanese, have spent an extra $10 billion in Western Australia to try and get this lemon going. People say, 'We'll get the rail eventually,' but the opportunity cost is this: $10 billion could have, and should have, been used for five new hospitals across Western Australia. That is the opportunity cost of the Labor government, federal and state, in their incompetence.

The member for Pearce, Tracey Roberts, and Labor have recently re-announced $10.5 billion that Christian Porter got for the electors of Pearce for a health campus in Yanchep. Labor have just re-announced it, but they haven't announced a hospital. (Time expired)