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

What you don’t do if you want to end the blame game is set up a new federal-state quango, a single funder, to run public hospitals which will mean that no-one is really in charge. I say to the new Leader of the Opposition that if he thinks that the states are mismanaging our public hospitals he should say so. If he thinks that he can better manage waiting lists, if he thinks that he can better control costs, he should tell us how. One thing he certainly should not do is seek advice from the member for Lalor. Even after five years as shadow health minister the best she could come up with was to say in her Earl Page lecture: ‘Anyone who has already made up their mind—

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