John Anderson (Gwydir, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I second the motion. It will hardly surprise you that my opening remarks will indicate that, whilst I do not pretend there is never a need for increased effort in the area of health—expectations continue to rise, technologies tend to expand and people’s expectations that society will be able to help them access these new technologies and capabilities, even in quite advanced years, increase—in reality we manage health care at a federal level quite well. I think the government deserves much commendation for the efforts it has made and indeed I firmly rebuke the former speaker, the member for Hindmarsh, for his implication that somehow the states are simple, pure and clean. The member behind me comes from Queensland.

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