Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for that question. It is interesting that the Minister for Ageing can provide a very detailed answer and that the member opposite, who thinks the minister should not refer to her notes, had to read a question that I think lasted less than 10 seconds. The truth is that the shadow minister knows that we made a very clear commitment at the election that we would do a range of things, and we are absolutely doing that range of things. Firstly, we said that we were going to reverse the previous government’s approach of pulling money out of public hospitals. This budget sees a 50 per cent increase in funding going into our public hospitals. We are starting to see results on that already, and we do not—

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