Hansard debates

Tim READ (Brunswick) (18:00): In the 47 seconds remaining, my job is to prescribe the cure. We have heard comprehensively the diagnosis, which is that Labor has a privatisation problem, and the first thing to do when you want to treat a problem like this is – and I am looking at you, member for Mulgrave – to admit that you have got a problem. And where to start? Well, the first thing I would do in my socialist utopia is not privatise Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria – hands off births, deaths and marriages. The second thing is have a look at the public hospitals, where there is a lot of creeping privatisation by stealth – private radiology, private pathology. I even had to get an ABN at the Royal Melbourne. I reckon my time is just about up, so I will call it there.