The Liberals promised $120 million over five years for a new cardiac centre for the state's north at the Launceston General Hospital, but last week's state budget revealed no funding allocation for the project.
In the lead-up to the 2024 snap election, the Liberals promised $120 million over five years for a new cardiac centre for the state's north at the Launceston General Hospital, which the AMA says is a "critical service".Her parents were told she would be lucky to live to 15 years old.
"What we're announcing today is that under a re-elected Liberal government, we will build a new northern heart centre right here in the heart of the Launceston General Hospital," Mr Rockliff said. The government said the requirement for federal government funding was included in its costing submission to the Department of Treasury and Finance during the campaign.In the 2024–25 Budget Paper 1, the centre was listed as "contingent on Australian government funding" with 50 per cent, or $60 million, of the cost to come from the federal government.
"They made a whole heap of election commitments that they can't fund, and now they're saying that the Commonwealth is on the hook for half of this," she said.But Tasmanian government disputes this, saying the premier wrote to the prime minister on the day the state election was called to ask for a funding commitment.
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