Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

If the government were scared by today’s opinion poll result, we would have entirely abandoned the sale of Medibank Private. We have not. We support the sale of Medibank Private. We think it will be good for policyholders, it will be good for taxpayers and it will be good for the health sector. We will proceed with the sale of Medibank Private, as announced, in 2008 and we will introduce legislation into this parliament to make this possible in two weeks time.

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