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Labor Mates

Posted by: Michael Smith | 20 February, 2009 - 10:57 AM

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Email 1 - Email 2 - Email 3 - Email 4

Here are some of the emails that I spoke about yesterday. You make your own mind up about whether the public service in our Health Department has been politicised.

Stephen Robertson is the Minister. He’s a politician and a spin-merchant. That’s what you’d expect of him. But the public servants in Queensland Health are paid by us to run the system. Not to advance the political cause of the Labor Party.

The blatant spin-doctoring in this daily parade of PR simply defies belief.

The public servant boss of Queensland Health, Mick Reid, is a long-time Labor Mate. He ran the Health Department in the disastrous New South Wales Labor Government. Then he moved to the top health job for the Federal Labor Health Minister Nicola Roxon. Until the Labor Mates in the Bligh Government tempted him to a cosy Labor Mate $450,000 a year job here.

Mick Reid is a master of the art of running disastrous Labor health systems.

Spin, spin, spin. This is a scandal.

Blog comments

People's outrage over this baffles me. What did people think was going to happen when they voted this Labor Government back in last election? This same government under Beattie had a disgraceful track record with health (Emergency departments in disarray, Patel discovery broke open, someone dying outside - was it Caboolture Hospital? - because they couldn't get in) and yet QLD voted them back into power. QLD voters need to dig their heads out of the sand and realise that this is what they voted for. I do not prefer one party over another, but last election I chose to vote against Labor because of this kind of thing. Why didn't the rest of QLD? Show your outrage at the polling booths this time!

Tezza Saturday 21 February, 2009 - 11:12 AM
Robbo has to go. Micky Mouse could do a better job.

Dawn Beattie Friday 20 February, 2009 - 11:33 PM
Come on Laurence, get mad .... please! Show the Labour Government up for the dishonest manipulators and mismanagers that they are. Queensland can't survive another term of the same.

Dawn Beattie Friday 20 February, 2009 - 11:32 PM
I was so angry when I read these emails. The people of Queensland are just too trusting. It scares me to think that this may be happening in other government departments also. As a tax payer, I want to know what the TRUE situation is. These people are Public Servants not Anna Servants and being waaaaay overpaid for what they do. They have no right to sensor the true situation to suit the Government of the day. Keep on 'em Smithy.

Dawn Beattie Friday 20 February, 2009 - 11:28 PM
This lot would'nt know the truth if it jumped up and bit them on the bum. Just as long as they get their benefits, it does'nt matter what sort of mess they leave everything in.

sandra bulmer Friday 20 February, 2009 - 10:23 PM
Please Anna, Name the date...

Brad Friday 20 February, 2009 - 9:32 PM