Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas today accused Premier Weatherill of outrageous and shameless politicising of the public service. The attached political message attacking Federal Liberal leader Tony Abbott was circulated to all public servants in Premier Weatherill’s own department. This screenshot was taken from the internal website available to almost 2,000 public servants in the…
Premier Weatherill has continued to use his internal department website to mount partisan political attacks on Liberal Leader Steven Marshall today. “The Liberal Party has been contacted again today by public servants in the Premier’s own department expressing great concern at the Premier’s outrageous use of taxpayer-funded resources,” said Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas. Today…
Premier Weatherill and Health Minister Snelling have broken another key Labor promise by closing the paediatric ward and services at Modbury Hospital. As recently as February this year, Minister Snelling had been promising families in the north eastern suburbs a ‘paediatric ward’ and ongoing paediatric services: “The secure paediatric ward will allow for any children…
Premier Weatherill’s Budget papers have revealed a massive blowout of more than $40 million in the total cost of SA Health’s new Oracle Corporate Systems IT project. The Labor Government approved funding for Oracle in 2009 and commenced the process for implementation in 2010. The original budget for Oracle was meant to be $23 million,…
Minister Snelling stands condemned for wasting $40 million on an IT project blowout at a time when hospitals cannot meet the demand for emergency treatment for patients. Minister Snelling apologised today for the latest example of ‘queuing’ or ‘ramping’ in hospitals when he apologised for queuing in the corridors at the Royal Adelaide Hospital on…
Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas said today the Weatherill Labor Government was trying to keep secret the results of confidential planning studies done for the current RAH site. “A senior source within SA Health has confirmed just prior to the last state election the Government commissioned Woodhead International to undertake a major master planning exercise…
A critical question about whether ‘training was effective and relevant’ has been left unanswered in the BreastScreen report, Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas said today. Associate Professor Warwick Lee’s report, released yesterday, on page 6 concluded: “The PACS audit did not find a conclusive factor that led to lower cancer detection rates. A definitive judgement…
Evidence to the Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee has confirmed the Shared Services SA (SSSA) project is in shambles. Government Services Group Executive Director Chris Oerman confirmed yesterday that not one Government department or agency had taken up the option of allowing SSSA to manage their ICT functions on their behalf. The original plan…
A former Fairfax Media columnist was paid $1,500 by South Australian taxpayers to write Mr Weatherill’s first major speech after becoming Premier. The speech was delivered by Mr Weatherill to the ALP state convention the day after he took over the premiership from Mike Rann in October 2011. The Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee…
Shadow Minister for Health Rob Lucas said today doctors held ‘grave concerns’ that ramping problems experienced at the FMC would be replicated at the NRAH. SA Health sources have confirmed that the Weatherill Labor Government has adopted exactly the same design for the Emergency Department at the NRAH as already exists at the FMC. The…