House of Assembly - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2015-09-09 Daily Xml

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Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

Mr MARSHALL (Dunstan—Leader of the Opposition) (14:43): Supplementary: is the minister suggesting that he is happy for state government funds to be expended on the provision of an officer for the ANMF where it specifically states in their advertisement, in terms of the skills sought, that there must be an ability to recruit and retain members?

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING (Playford—Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Minister for the Arts, Minister for Health Industries) (14:44): I am more than happy to have a look at that and just see but, look, if the opposition want to start attacking the ANMF, that's entirely up to them but, as far as I am concerned—

Mr Pisoni interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Unley is warned.

The Hon. J.J. SNELLING: —I am more than happy to make funds available to the ANMF to go about their business representing their members, particularly at a time of considerable change for nurses, considerable change to the way nurses are having to go about their business. I don't resile for one minute making funds available to the ANMF to enable them to do their work representing their members at what is going to be a significantly challenging time as we reconfigure our health system.

An honourable member interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Chaffey is warned for the second and final time.