News location:

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | Digital Edition | Crossword & Sudoku

Barr bagged for ‘cynical’ Christmas message to health workers

Chief Minister Andrew Barr’s Christmas message to health workers.

DESCRIBING the Chief Minister’s Christmas Day Facebook message to ACT Health workers as “a revoltingly cynical sentiment”, a health insider writes that it’s “a twisted hypocrisy” for many frontline staff, who regularly report being “hideously understaffed and overworked”. 

Unwilling to put their name, the experienced health insider says: “Barr and his cronies, after all, are the ones responsible for making our frontline health workers cripplingly exhausted… preferring to fund a tram over protecting essential services, such as healthcare, from total collapse.”
“I believe Barr’s Christmas message to health workers deserves to be shared far and wide, but not for the reason he had intended.”

News all day, every day at CityNews.com.au.

Who can be trusted?

In a world of spin and confusion, there’s never been a more important time to support independent journalism in Canberra.

If you trust our work online and want to enforce the power of independent voices, I invite you to make a small contribution.

Every dollar of support is invested back into our journalism to help keep citynews.com.au strong and free.

Become a supporter

Thank you,

Ian Meikle, editor

Share this

One Response to Barr bagged for ‘cynical’ Christmas message to health workers

John says: 27 December 2022 at 11:05 pm

But we have a tram! What more could anyone want?

Perhaps we can have a mobile tram medical clinic, like the tram restaurant in Melbourne, then Canberra Health might get some funding and political attention.

Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

*

Related Posts

Follow us on Instagram @canberracitynews