Dental Health – Bundaberg/Burnett

Eligibility - Electors of the Division of Burnett and Bundaberg
Principal Petitioner:
John Kluth
53 Mark Road
Branyan Qld 4670
Total Signatures - 53
Sponsoring Member: Rob Messenger MP
Posting Date: 19/4/2007
Closing Date: 22/6/2007
Tabled Date: 7/8/2007
Responded By: Hon Stephen Robertson MP on 29/9/2007
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
Electors of the electorates of Bundaberg and Burnett draws to the attention of the House to the widespread community concern at the failure of the Queensland Government to provide adequate dental health treatment in the Bundaberg–Burnett region, resulting in unacceptably long waiting lists and waiting times of more than seven years. Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to ensure the Queensland Government recognises the long suffering of oral health patients and urgently provides more funding and resources for better dental treatment in Bundaberg–Burnett. The undersigned also calls on the Queensland Government to enter into contracts with private dental health practitioners, should there be a lack of public dentists, to perform the necessary procedures in order to reduce waiting lists and times to a just and manageable level.