Save RAH

Over the past week we’ve discussed on this website the issues that concern Save the RAH Party.
• Avoiding the unnecessary unsustainable commitment to $1bn+ a year
• Providing world class facilities at the RAH on Frome Rd by completing the work interrupted by the Rann government
• Retaining the mix of hospital/university/research/dental hospital/laboratories on one site
• Preserving the complete spectrum of medical services in SA’s most respected hospital.
• Rebuilding y finishing the job started in 2001.
That can ONLY BE DONE BY A STRONG VOTE FOR Save the RAH.

SAVE THE RAH AND LIBERAL PARTY POLICY IS NOT.THE SAME
“Voters must not be misled by Mr Rann’s onslaught against the Liberal Party’s RAH Rebuild policy” Save the RAH Candidate David McGowan said today
“Save the RAH stands for the prudent finishing of the redevelopment project, fully costed and approved by this Government in 2001 to provide world class facilities and left half finished when Minister Hill stopped it in 2007 in favour of Rann Railyards monument

Everyone wants the RAH to be rebuild on site except Mike Rann and his Ministers.
Everyone except Mike Rann and his Ministers can see the sense of the rebuilding policy, for the two reasons – (1) it doesn’t commit South Australians to unsustainable and un necessary debt, and (2) it preserves the location mix of research medical training , university , scientific diagnostic resources. That includes
Save the RAH, (naturally)
Liberal Party,

MILLIONS OF UNCOSTED DOLLARS REQUIRED BEFORE WORK CAN PROPERLY START.

Election Candidates for the Save the RAH Party gathered on site at the corner of North Terrace and WestTerrace on Thurwsday to protest the unfunded cost of cleaning up the railyard site which the Rann Government has ignored in its costings of the proposed Railyards Hospital project.

With only two days left to consider your vote, allow me to present a case….
Save the RAH Party was born out of the rejection by Health Minister Hill of submissions , argument and common sense. The founders of the RAH Party believe in the commons sense of the people and the Party is the mechanism we have of demonstrating the folly that the Rann Government is proposing.

I can’t really say Mike Rann and friends are panicking because I can’t get into their minds, but the actions we see are certainly consistent with that view. Monday’s offering was John Hill calling Isobel Redmond a liar because of a ruling by the electoral commissioner over an electoral ad about the RAH. Such personal attacks simply reflect that the Government has run out of ideas to defend its flawed plan. It is the action of fear and panic.

It would appear that the Rann Government is a victim of its own spin, that the solutions to the health , mental health lie entirely in bricks and concrete and steel .

In the Stateline interview on Friday 12th Health Minister John Hill said that his cost of the Railyards hospital was possible because there was no cost for land as the Government owned the land. The first implication of this statement is that if the cost of land is included then the price would not be $1.7bn but more than $2bn.

Did you see the Friday 12th Edition of Stateline? .
A prominent feature of that presentation was vision through the service tunnels under the RAH, showing rusting delapidated piping- the segment implying that the condition of services are so bad that it justifies the move to the railyards project.

Dear Enquirer

The Rann/Foley government has planned for a private consortium to finance, design, construct and own the new RAH. The consortium will then maintain and supply support services to it for 35 years. From 2016 we will be paying rent and a service fee for 35 years! (http://www.newrah.sa.gov.au/project/procurement.htm).
Cost to completion is estimated at $1,700million.
What will be the annual rent and fee? Perhaps starting at $200million?
We will be renting something for 35 years after demolishing $1billion worth of perfectly functioning RAH - that we own.
Sounds crazy!