Tuesday, 28 May 2024

Albury Wodonga Health

Wendy LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (13:36): On 6 March this year I moved a motion for the government to produce documents relating to the Albury Wodonga Health redevelopment. It is now 12 weeks since the motion was passed in Parliament and nine weeks after the due date for documents to be produced, and the government has not delivered anything. The New South Wales government was able to produce documents within three weeks of its Parliament requesting them, and there is no reason why the Victorian government cannot do the same. Why is Labor hiding these documents? Why doesn’t it want the people of Albury–Wodonga to know the truth about the hospital redevelopment? The government must release the documents as soon as possible, go back to the drawing board on this hospital redevelopment and engage in genuine community consultation.