Robert Oakeshott (Lyne, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. With the target now set for population increases in Australia, with the well-known ageing population challenges we have right now, with debt at both the Commonwealth and state levels meaning tighter fiscal settings for forward budgets and with state governments consistently and frustratingly not following their own funding formulas within their own health departments—and, Prime Minister, this is at least as important as asylum seekers and at least as important as climate change—when can we expect real structural reform in health and hospital services in Australia for a network of services already struggling despite the obvious pressures on the near horizon.

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