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

The point out of all of this is that despite all the promises, all the rhetoric and all the spin lines—the way in which it was rehearsed and put at the last election that Labor had a plan to fix hospitals—I would ask people all around the country, and those nurses and doctors and other allied health professionals who are working in terrible conditions: has anything improved in your hospital over the last 18 months? Of course it has not. This is a government that have now walked away from their commitment to fix public hospitals and to make the situation better for nurses and doctors around the country. They are saying, ‘We cannot give you a guarantee—after 16 months of consultation with 10 of the country’s best health experts and despite coming up with 123 recommendations—that we will introduce any reform in health today, tomorrow, next month or indeed for the next six months.’ This is a prime minister who has now decided to go on a tour around the country for six months, visiting hospitals—

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