Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

In question time today ministers have claimed, as they have on previous days, that the former government, in particular me as health minister, ripped money out of the hospital system. I have here material from the Parliament Library stating that total Commonwealth health expenditure in 1996-97 was $19,809,000,000. In 2006-07, it was $39—

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