Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Northern Metropolitan Region

Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:51): (1808) My constituency question is to the Minister for Health, and it concerns the Craigieburn Community Hospital, where after our advocacy the barbed wire fence has finally come down. It opened seven years and two elections after it was promised, but again, with only a very small amount of services offered. When the 2018 election commitment was announced the Premier and then health minister promised after-hours care and urgent care, so the goalposts keep changing. We were promised it would be opened last year. That promise was broken. Now it will be open with only a few services, without the after-hours care and the urgent care that the Craigieburn community desperately needs. Minister, I note that last month you declined to comment on this to the NorthernStar Weekly, so I ask you to advise the Parliament instead why the community hospital has had services slashed and if you will commit to delivering them in the future.