Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. On 22 October this year, the Prime Minister’s website, under the heading ‘Fixing our hospitals’, said:

… if significant progress toward the implementation of the … reforms has not been achieved by mid-2009, the Government will seek a mandate from the Australian people at the following federal election for the Commonwealth to take financial control of Australia’s 750 public hospitals.

Of course, that reflected the Prime Minister’s election commitment. I have here a printout from the website this morning which shows that the section containing that commitment to a referendum has been deleted. Does the Prime Minister stand by his election promise to the Australian people either to fix Australia’s public hospitals or to take them over?

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