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

The characterisation by the minister, just for the sake of Hansard, is a complete misrepresentation. This is a minister who has championed the cause of women around the country—and, in particular, the rights of nurses—and yet in this very bill this minister is saying to nurses and to parents around the country who are making decisions about how they will birth their children, ‘You cannot have a midwife, because we are making the practice illegal and we are exposing people to a $30,000 fine.’ This is a minister who would slap nurses in the face in this bill.

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