Andrew Darby The Age
THE Prime Minister leaned on a counter at Tasmania’s north-west regional hospital at Burnie and asked a man with a stethoscope around his neck what he thought. “Do you really want to know?” replied the nurse, Paul Will. “I wouldn’t have saved the Mersey.” As reporters and cameras crowded in during the October 8 exchange, Howard ploughed on. “You wouldn’t have saved the Mersey?” he said. “Why?” “Because the plan the Tasmanian Government had for it would have worked really well,” Will responded. “It was never going to be actually closed.”
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