Government ‘backflips’ on Midland hospital funding cuts amid backlash
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The West Australian government has reversed a decision to cut $10.6 million in funding from one of Perth’s major metropolitan hospitals, after it was revealed executives had been left with no other choice but the fire frontline staff as a result.
The backflip was revealed during question time in Parliament on Thursday after Liberal MP Donna Faragher quizzed the Labor government about the cuts to St John of God Midland Public Hospital.
St John of God Hospital, Midland.
The state of the WA opposition as Zak Kirkup becomes a private citizen
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Zak Kirkup cut a lonely figure as he got out of his car in the darkened Dudley Park Bowling and Recreation Club parking lot in Mandurah, south of Perth, to give a face to the Liberal Party’s greatest defeat.
Buttoning his jacket and stepping toward the throng of awaiting cameras, he strode alone into the function room full of 100 awaiting friends, family, and Liberal supporters with the knowledge only two of his colleagues were likely to be returned in parliament’s lower house.