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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
2025-10-15 Daily Xml
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Question Time

Ambulance Ramping

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI (Leader of the Opposition) (14:23): I seek leave to make a brief explanation prior to asking the Deputy Premier questions regarding broken election promises.

Leave granted.

The Hon. N.J. CENTOFANTI: Back in 2022, before the last state election, the Malinauskas Labor government promised that they would fix ramping. However, our state has now endured 40 of the worst ramping months on record under their watch. Patients and paramedics have spent more than 160,000 hours stuck outside our hospitals on the ramp since Labor took office, double the entire four years under the former Liberal government. In September alone, patients and paramedics spent 4,557 hours stuck on the ramp. My questions to the newly appointed Deputy Premier are:

1. Does the Deputy Premier and his cabinet find it acceptable that after 3½ years in government his Labor government continues to preside over the worst ramping in our state's history?

2. Does he acknowledge that his government has failed their core election promise?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Deputy Premier, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State) (14:24): I thank the honourable member for her question. I am very proud to be part of a government that has built a bigger health system with more doctors, more nurses and more beds, and when someone calls for an ambulance—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: —they are more likely to get an ambulance with significantly—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. K.J. MAHER: —improved response times.

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