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WA Liberal party optimistic ahead of state election next year
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1 year ago
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has laid out her party's path back to government four months out from the state election. Improving the health system is top of her agenda, announcing a new policy to slash the elective surgery waitlist.
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In a rally cry to party faithful, Libby Metham insists the unthinkable is within reach.
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I believe we can and will win government.
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With a well-worn strategy to get there.
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We stand for a better health system. We stand for stronger law and order.
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We stand for restoring our regions, more homes and importantly cost of living pressures for households.
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She promised a Liberal-led government would pay for elective surgeries to be performed in private hospitals
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if patients can't be seen within medically recommended times in the public system.
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A similar idea was trialled more than a decade ago, hampered by a stretched private health system.
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We've only done 16 in total and I have to say that the proposal we put forward hasn't worked.
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It's been revisited since with public hospitals now having struck deals with private operators
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for certain patients based on clinical need.
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The potential for an expansion welcomed by the sector,
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especially as private hospitals claim their funding isn't keeping pace with rising costs.
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If this is a way that the state government can provide meaningful support to the private hospitals
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so that they can keep doing what they do, then that is certainly something we would welcome.
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The Liberals' priorities, including in health, are all about going back to basics to get more MPs back in there.
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To go one step further though and win back government would require picking up dozens of seats,
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many more than is thought to be possible.
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A prediction not weighing the party down.
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The Liberal Party's story is far from over.
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Our best chapters are still yet to be written.
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There's little time to waste with the start of the next chapter just four months away.
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