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Western Australian election ends in landslide The McGowan Government has been emphatically re-elected in Western Australia. In the recent election in Western Australia, the Labor party won 53 of the state’s 59 legislative assembly seats. The National Party now holds four seats, leaving the Liberal Party holding only two seats. Before the 13 March poll, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Western Australia Committee sent an election statement to the major parties. The statement identified six key focus areas relevant to surgery: • Data sharing legislation • Elective surgery waiting lists • Ongoing COVID-19 response • Public and private hospital readmission rates
• Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality
the government to account will become increasingly important.
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Over the next four years, the Western Australian Committee will endeavor to work with the Government and the opposition to ensure that issues of public health, particularly those relating to the delivery of surgical services, remain a priority.
The statement provided background information on each of these issues and then posed a series of questions. There have been many examples where RACS has been able to secure firm commitments from political parties before an election. In response to this election statement, the Labor Party reaffirmed its commitment to update the state’s data sharing legislation. With a depleted opposition lacking in resources, the role of the College and other like-minded organisations in holding
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To view RACS’ Western Australian election statement, as well as the Labor Party response, please visit our website.
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