Benambra MP Bill Tilley said his frustration had reached boiling point.
“It’s taken 421 days for the Minister to say f*#! you, you’re getting nothing,” Mr Tilley said.
“It’s taken 421 days for the Minister to say f*#! you, you’re getting nothing.”
“All we want is transparency; we want to understand how this brownfield development became the preferred option against all previous recommendations for a single site hospital on a greenfield patch of land.”
On March 6, Member for Northern Victoria, Wendy Lovell repeated her call for the documents on the one-year anniversary of the motion.
“The refusal to provide transparency on such a significant public project raises serious questions about what the Victorian Government is trying to hide,” Ms Lovell said.
“This is a government that has not published the public surgery waiting list for Albury Wodonga Health for more than six months.
“This is a government that is yet to finalise the business case for what they promised was going to be a ‘10-storey medical tower in a world-class hospital’, almost three years after it was first announced.
Mr Tilley said Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas “had deflected responsibility, claiming the ‘majority’ of the documentation had already been published, by the NSW Government, not Victoria.
John Crothers, spokesman for the Corowa, Rutherglen, Wahgunyah Health Action Group said they welcomed every effort, by government or opposition, to make the planning around Albury Wodonga Health transparent.
“Our community has shown, through more than 2 500 petition signatures and the recent Walk for Health, that it wants facts, not politics,” Mr Crothers said.
“If key documents about capacity modelling or costings are being withheld, they should be released.
“Transparent data will let clinicians, councils and residents judge whether the current $558 million brown field plan can meet the 2021 Clinical Services Plan, or whether additional investment—potentially a green field build—is required.
“We invite Mr Tilley, along with all State and Federal representatives, to meet with the cross border advocacy groups so we can work together on a solution that delivers safe, future proof healthcare for the whole 300,000 strong catchment.”
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