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

and I will be making it on many occasions subsequent to this if the government does not act promptly so that this debate can be had and this woman can get on with her life. That is the call we make to the government tonight.

In relation to the bill, there are some areas of concern. Those areas have been flagged in the Senate, and we have made the government aware of them tonight. In terms of the general thrust of this bill and the way in which it has been presented by the government, the coalition support the bill. As the alternative government of this country, we will continue to hold this government to account to make sure we have better patient outcomes in this country and to make sure that the government does not continue to put extra pressure on the public hospital system, which is already at—and in some cases beyond—breaking point. We renew that commitment to the Australian people tonight.

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