Health Minister must correct the record

After 13 years of Liberal waste, Premier Rockliff let Eric Abetz deliver a budget that contains $700 million worth of cuts to health.

The cuts are written in black and white on the second last page of the budget papers¹.

Despite this, Health Minister Bridget Archer is still trying to trick Tasmanians into believing they don’t exist, issuing a media release stating that “there are no cuts to health”.

Multiple health experts have since spoken out against the cuts, voicing their grave concerns about how a system already at breaking point can withstand them. By pretending the cuts don’t exist, the Minister has effectively accused those experts – which include doctors, nurses, paramedics and healthcare workers – of lying.

The Ministerial code of conduct states that “Ministers must not deliberately make statements that mislead Parliament or the public and in line with Parliamentary practice are obliged to correct the record in a manner that is appropriate to the circumstances, as soon as possible after any incorrect statement is made.”

Will Minister Archer correct the record today?