Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Lyne for his question. I recall very clearly my visit to Port Macquarie and the time I spent with him and others speaking to the staff at Port Macquarie Base Hospital about their particular needs. The fact is that in Port Macquarie, as I was advised, you have a hospital which was essentially designed around what was estimated to be the needs for that region in the early nineties, and here we are at the end of the first decade of this century and its physical capacity has not been substantially increased.

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