http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-n ... 6032969118Explosive leaked documents reveal the Baillieu Coalition secretly abandoned key plans to slash hospital waiting lists, redevelop hospitals and halve ambulance queues just weeks before the state election.
In three hours on October 12, a Coalition razor gang abandoned many of its best intentions, spelled out in drafts of the Liberal-Nationals Coalition Plan for Health that it prepared for last year's election but never released.
The blueprints seen by the Herald Sun show the Government also planned to delay funding for the state's biggest hospital developments - with less than a quarter of the funds needed for the new Monash Children's and Royal Victorian Eye and Ear hospitals to be handed over in its first term.
In later changes the Coalition slashed its health plan further, dumping a proposal to cut waiting lists by 20,000 over the next two years and watering down a $100 million list overhaul.
According to Seven News the Coalition left the documents in the Opposition offices at Parliament house when they vacated them. Labor duly found them and used them to good effect.
Opposition leader Daniel Andrews was also featured in the story. I liked his line referring to the documents, “a plan for a plan and nothing more than a sham”
The Baillieu govt is in a fragile position, even one by election loss would be embarrassing.
Of course we know you can’t trust Liberals, that their reputation for honesty, such as it was, was lowered even further by “non-core” Howard. But you now you have the ask the lying bastards “Which election promises have you already decided to break?”